No sir officers, I have absolutely NO idea how these two mini-jellies ended up in my shopping cart. I did pay for them, but how did they get in my cart? Do you have an undercover fabric-basket-filler who patrols the craft store, tossing random jellies into people’s carts? I smell a conspiracy!!!
I have slowly getting a tote bag ready for a tote bag swap I joined in one of the Facebook groups I belong to. The only requirements are that it be at least 14″ wide. The coordinator of the swap asked each of the swap members what colors they would like. She used that single parameter to choose what colors we were to make our tote bags for each secret recipient.
Let me interject here that the colors I was given were completely out of my comfort zone and I did not have at least one of the fabrics that I was given. Off I go to the quilt shop last year and picked up a fat quarter of the fabric color my secret tote bag recipient requested…and I found a really cool braided handle to put with my tote bag. Except when I got the lovely handle out to get ready to put it on the tote bag, I realized it was WAY too thick to not only sew through…I was also afraid that it would be something I was uncomfortable putting on a gifted project because of its thickness.
Off to the craft store today, to find a bit more fabric for the inside of the tote bag because I did not have any of that color in my stash, and to look for a better option for the tote bag handles. I found success in both the interior fabric and the handles!
And as I was making the tote bag, I made darned sure I had reinforced ALL of the seams. If you are going to have a tote bag that is at least 14″ wide, it would most likely be used to carry heavier things and I wanted to be sure that the tote bag can stand up to that.
I have enjoyed this secret swap project…and now we wait to find out who our secret tote bag swapper is so I can send her the tote bag with her chosen colors!
Linda at AbbiMays.com sent me 20 pounds of fabric for our church’s Lutheran World Relief quilt-a-thon:
I had to rescue some of the fabric for my stash as it was too lovely or fun for me to pass up O:) – but never fear, the church ladies were still very appreciated of the box of fabric that I AbbiMays.com had sent to them! And I am truly running out of room in my one-butt sewing room for more stash fabric!
Even if you do not need stash fabric, do you still purchase something that is too lovely to pass up?
Have you ever strolled through a website and found some fabric that you had no immediate plans for…yet, the fabrics just popped out at you and you HAD TO HAVE THEM for your personal quilt stash? Just because! This was my latest “just because” quilt fabric:
Love the colors, love the pattern and love Linda from AbbiMays.com for sending this to me! It will live in a stash basket until I find a use for it – just because! I shall now commence with my stroking and finding a special basket for this fabulous stash fabric!
Whatever shall I do??? I received another gift of fabric from AbbiMays.com. These fabrics just light my quilted fire and it’s SO HARD to see them sitting on my cutting table while I finish up other projects!
Most of these fabrics (excluding the purple and pink circle fabrics) are from the Tonga Fabric line from Timeless Treasures.
If you’d like to order some of these luscious fabrics, feel free to use the coupon code tammy10 and you will receive 10% off your total order!