Sunday Morning

Here is the finished gift I made for my friend's daughter. I think it came out pretty cute. I need some work on my embroidery skills, but I really do enjoy the craft. It's very relaxing to do on the couch while watching the Home and Garden channel :-)

It' s Sunday morning right now, my absolute favorite time of the week. I went out and got some magazines and a bagel. I came home and took a clean-up shower and I'm ready to relax! It's beautiful outside, I can see the sun shining through the trees from my kitchen window as I write this. Sunday morning in the fall - nothing better than this. Enjoy your Sunday :-)

The High Street Messenger bag is finally finished and ended up a success! I pinned and pressed and edge stitched on Saturday and then today I ripped out part of the edge stitching on the flap and restitched it. Now, it's finished and I love it :-) Here are some pictures, you can read a full review here.

I finally had a chance to make the Black Apple Doll that was featured with Emily Martin on Martha Stewart. This was a really simple project and it came out really cute! It's going to be a gift for a little 1 year old girl, along with an embroidered pilllow that hopefully I can show you next week.

Lastly, I cut out the pieces for my quilt! I hope to start piecing this together next weekend. Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend, I'm ready for fall now - how about you?

This Close

I currently want to take my High Street Messenger bag and light it on fire...or toss it in the ocean. Either way, this bag went from good to bad and took my whole day along with it! I spent hours (HOURS!) working on this bag. It was coming along great, until I got to edge-stitching the pieces together along the top (the 2nd to last step in the whole process). I have ripped it out 5 times! I can't face my seam ripper again right now. I may come back to this one more time tomorrow. We'll see. I may use some of the pieces (the strap and the hanging interior pocket) and add them into a tote bag. I'll have to decide tomorrow, I wanted this finished by the weekend! :-(

Edited to add: Ok, after venting on my blog I picked up the seam ripper and started ripping some of those stitches out. I'm going to give it another try tomorrow. :-)

Guess what!!

I was added to the Big List of Sewing Blogs!!! I'm number 303, if you're looking :-) Yay, very exciting!!!

I've only done a tiny bit of work on the High Street bag, but I'm hoping to get much more of it done by the weekend - stay tuned!

High Street - Ready to Sew

All the pieces are cut out and labeled (Oh, except for the exterior strap. Even though I followed the cutting directions perfectly, I needed to go out and get 1/3 of a yard more to cut the strap. I had to piece the canvas interfacing piece for it as well, keep this in mind if you plan to sew this pattern.). I plan to work on sewing this up this afternoon and I will post my progress later on or tomorrow. Happy Saturday!

Weekend Update

I didn't get any cutting or sewing done this weekend, I just didn't have the chance. However, I just pressed up my fabric for the High Street bag, here they are:

The green on the right will be the exterior with the houndstooth as the lining. You may recognize the green from this bag I made my friend, I always loved it, now it will be a bag for me!

I also went to Joann's and got 3 Simplicity patterns on sale:

And a few New Look patterns, they are cheap enough to buy any time. Now that I have a serger, I need some knit-specific patterns! There are also some weddings to attend in the coming year, which is why I got the dress patterns. Cutting out of the High Street bag should take place over the week, and I plan to start sewing over the weekend (I hope!). Have a great week!

Anna in Action

I am wearing my Anna Tunic right now! I love it :-) I just got back from my aunt and uncle's 30th anniversary party and then I'm heading into Boston in just a little bit. Since I have some time, I took a few pics in my mirror, I wanted to have some good ones to show. Here she is!

I bought fabrics for the High Street Messenger Bag. They are washed and now just need to be pressed up and I can start cutting. The cutting is going to be a long process. I'll show the fabrics off tomorrow. I read a tip somewhere that said using masking tape to label each piece is helpful, so I plan to do that. I have had this pattern for a while, I can't wait to get started!

I am still waiting for my quilting fabrics to arrive. I bought some of the red with white polka dots that I used for my pillow. I am going to make the bias binding out of this fabric. I think I'm going to back the quilt in a light blue sheet. More to come once I actually start work on this, right now I'm going to concentrate on the cutting of High Street.