Fabric Bag

I found another cute tutorial online for a fabric bag.  Gathering fabric... I haven't done it for a while.  I suppose it is now or never!  Another project that needs interfacing.  I'm glad I bought it all on sale!

Candy corn and Halloween green.  Ahh Halloween, you are so much fun!

The gathering didn't go all to great but you gotta start somewhere.  I used a scrap of fabric from my last cross stitch project to finish off the top.

Gotta love making a useful item out of stuff you already have.  Currently I'm using it for cross stitch floss storage.   I will probably make more of these little puppies for each season.

Hopefully that gathering thing will be better on the next try to make a taller, less shallow bowl.  To another day...

Diamond pillow

I made another pillow for my bed.  They don't match but they are tons of fun.  I really enjoy the summer colors.

I made this pillow out of a 16 by 16 inches pillow form.  The white diamond in the center is 8 1/2 inches square.  In retrospect I should have make it 8 by 8 inches.  That would leave more space around the edges to sew the two pieces together

The color blocks are 2 by 2 inches.  The pieces did not line up perfectly at the end of each row but practice makes perfect.  I almost like the scrappy look anyways.

The finishing touch on this pillow is a 1/4 inch teal border.  I'd never done one before but I think it ended up working very nicely.  But I gotta work on the corners!

I'm thinking about making some more and selling them on Etsy.  So far I have not sold any items on Etsy but I will keep trying!