Monday was a good day for me. I had the chance to be a total homebody with little interruption. Two out of three kids were away, which means that there was no fighting and it was a little more quiet than usual. I took the opportunity to labor away at my sewing machines.
I know, I'm so exciting! My day started with some piecing on the new scrap quilt, then I finished up the quilting on my red quilt, then I made the binding and machine sewed it onto the red quilt, then I did a little more piecing on the scrap quilt. At that point I was about to call it quits for the day and work on hand stitching the binding on the red quilt, but I had another project on the brain.
Another bag! Ever since I made this bag, I've been wanting to tweak it. I took a chance and made it from good fabrics - Lantern Bloom by Laura Gunn. I generally don't like to use patterns from all one line on a single bag, but these work together so beautifully, I couldn't help it.
I really thought this was going to be IT, but after putting all my stuff into the bag, I realize that I still need to do some more tweaking. I think it looks great, but I'm not happy with how the front pocket falls open. Also, because this is a fairly large bag, I think it need some more reinforcing somewhere. Maybe I just need to make it a bit smaller. See?? More tweaking, for sure. I may be a sloppy quilter, but I'm more of a perfectionist when it comes to bags.
But you know what? This is all part of the fun. So, this one wasn't IT, but I get to make another one and try again. I find that kind pretty darned exciting :)
