Fabric Creeping out in the Sewing Cave

Something strange in my Sewing Cave. I just cleaned up all the crumb quilt scraps and now look. I think all my batiks have been creeping out of their nice neat organized drawers and sprawled out on the sewing table. I guess you could say I am procrastinating on putting a border on the Crumb quilt. Out of sight out of mind. I finished the purse. I had to use my dear friend Jack the Ripper only once. I messed up putting in the zipper so ended up unsewing almost the whole purse but was able to fix it. I loved the way this purse turned out so well I started laying out more batiks on the ironing pad to put together another one.

Yes Shannon I'm really using my Batik favorites.

This purse turned out so well, all the machine quilting made it even stiffer than the others I have done and it stands up so nicely on it's own.

Playing with Batiks

When I first started on the blogs a couple of months ago I saw a beautiful quilt done with batiks and quilted with lines. I believe she called it Currents. I wish I could remember who made it. I fell in love with it and wanted to do something like it. I bought some batik scraps from Getsassed on Etsy aka Sew Fantastic added a few of my own to make this. It will be a purse. I used a variegated thread. Here is a close up.

This is the other side.

I love batiks! They are my favorite fabrics I rarely use them because I do not want to cut them. lol

Crumbs Quilt

Well I finished putting the sashing on the Crumb Quilt. Now I just wrung out. I know that it needs more borders. The light bulb hasn't come on. I need to make some purses to list on Etsy to sell. I have been churning out the quilt tops like crazy it's time to get back to my money makers. My Dh was watching me last night and asked if I thought all my fabric was ugly again. lol That is usually my excuse when I have quilters block. No my fabric is not ugly it is still all organized and pretty I just don't know what to do. Some appliquie I think. lol Maybe tonight something will jump out and turn the light bulb again. Oh yeah Happy Cinco de Mayo

Finished project from the cave and a new purse!

I made this purse from crumbs of my scraps.
I finally gave up and change my wintry Christmas purse out for this one. It is so bright and cheerful. I took it with me when I went to Joann's Sunday and got a lot of compliments. Even small scraps can do something. We pay for all our fabrics so need to use ALL of it.

Next Saturday my mom is having a St. Patrick's day party. My mom, sister, sister-in-law, daughter and myself are supposed to make a craft using green for an exchange.

I made fabric bowls. I wanted to do something that no one has and a little different than a quilt or wall hanging.

Each one is different. Quick and easy. I am so glad they are done. Usually I'm the one finishing up the hour before we leave. lol

I enjoy reading comments sometimes I have a hard time replying back with email. It just doesn't work so I may have to reply back to you in one of your blogs. There are so many of you out there that are so talented. I could and do get stuck on here going from blog to blog adding to my to do lists. Thank you all.