Getting with the Program

Sorry I couldn't come to the blog yesterday, but they locked me in down at the sweatshop. The good news is I've made some progress.

On Tuesday night, I finished the second messenger bag. I brought it to show everyone at quilting last night because I was so proud of how perfect this one is...and I only had to sew the lining into the bag once. This bag was made without use of a seam ripper!






Here is Sissy's Sea-bathing box. I hope you can tell I spent hours painting the thing. And four coats of sealer, inside and out. Speaking of the inside...













I wouldn't want to bathe in that sea, but awesome fabric, isn't it?

This is the first finish of December's list! I had started with the blue coasters, but the variegated viscose (Sulky) thread kept breaking...and I could tell it would soon affect my sanity. So I switched to the red (these are the brown, which aren't on the list, but I meant to list "blue, green, and brown." Bear with me.) because the red used a different (poly) thread. Flush with the success of "quilting" the red, I tried the viscose thread again, and the brown and dark green gave me no trouble at all. Last night in quilting class I finished these, "quilted" the green coasters, and cut the final two sets. Just need to edge them now. Tutorial for these, here.