The Cutest Purse

After cleaning up my scraps, (I made myself cut every scrap that was out of the basket into squares) I rewarded myself with a little creative play. There was the jean pant leg cut open with a jagged cut on the top just laying there begging to be made into something, and since purses are my latest obsession that's what it became. I folded it back and loved the asymetry that happened. I found some wonderful Japanese fabric that I really had to force myself to cut and I love what evolved. I'm thinking of selling it in my shop but I couldn't resist giving it a test run. It worked beautifully! I was worried about not having any closures but because it is narrow on top it didn't gape and things felt secure.

Out of control scraps

Okay so now that I have put up a picture of my sweaty horse I decided I'd show you what my scrap box looks like. They seem similar to me.

Kimonos and horses

This is what happens when I put off doing what I should be doing. I'm not sure why that is but if I have to clean house or make market bag instruction (for example) boy do I get busy and creative.
This morning I went on a long ride, or long for me anyways. I rode Mimi, I call her my tank because she pretty much plows through anything and has the lightness of a tank. Partly it's the draft in her and the rest is her opinionated personality. She has a mind of her own. It's been so warm that she sweats like crazy. Here is a picture of her curly dried sweat chest.

Three Dimensional Kimonos

So I got sidetracked with the bag instructional. I will get back to it, I promise. I was so excited to finally sell something on Etsy. I sold two of my little 3D Kimono quilts and then I decided to send a little thank you card with the package. I decided on a folded paper Kimono just like on the quilts but.....I found I had forgotten how to make them. So much folding later I had it figured out again and then I just couldn't stop and made a bunch out of fabric. Then of course that lead to thinking about more little quilts. So I put these up on my design wall just to look at and think about.

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog. I intend to start right off with a tutorial on how to make a market bag. I am teaching a class on it in Feb so this will be good practice. The instructions will be coming soon.