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Take a look at this lovely Swirly Sewing Basket 
made by Lanie. Great job - love the colors!

 
   

Rina sent photos of the awesome tote bags she made with our free tote bag instructions
The photos for the quilt blocks were printed on material. Rina made the bag straps from denim and used her 
felting machine to attach the hand dyed wool details. The wool was dyed with ordinary food coloring. 
Very creative work! Thanks Rina.

 

Another gorgeous Crazy Patch Purse crafted by Fran Hahn.
Fran says she enjoyed making the bag and could not
wait to finish it. She put two pockets inside for smaller items.

Lovely Crazy Patch Purse made by Jeanette
Jeanette says she's so pleased with her project 
and really enjoyed making it.
Click HERE to see the designs.

 
 

Susan M. says she's lost count of the number of Funky Flower Patch Purses she's made. She adds a lined pocket across
the back and uses matching braiding on the pocket edge and bag straps. The bags all have zipper closures. Instead of felt 
Susan uses organza for the flowers and fringes the edges for a fluffy look. Hot glue crystals finish off the design. Gorgeous!!

 

Another stunning bag by Rina. Just love the colors.

Trish P made this stylish cell phone purse using our 
Large Purse 2 designs.

Rina Stols sent us these great photos of her bags. Rina used upholstery fabric for her projects. Super job!
The bags shown above are the Funky Flower Patch Purse and the Butterfly Bag Set.

Judy made this lovely Funky Flower Patch Purse for her daughter. She placed both sections of the purse in her 
Designer Diamond's Majestic Hoop and stitched the panels together, thereby eliminating the seam in the center.
 Judy's granddaughters have already placed orders for their own purses!

Sally from Australia and her 8 year old daughter 
made this beautiful Funky Flower Patch purse. 
Isn't it pretty?

Gorgeous denim Funky Flower Patch purse made by Fran

Antonia's been busy! These are just some of the 5x7 purses she's made. Don't you love the fabrics?
Antonia says she'll be using the extra large purses as diaper/wipes totes for her daughters' children.

Look at these gorgeous fairy bags Lynne made for her granddaughters - don't they make you want to be a little girl again?
The in-the-hoop purses are our Really Large Purses 8x12 and the embroidery designs on the front pockets are from
 Embroidery Library's I believe in Fairies pack.

Gail W. sent these lovely photos of the Ready Steady Go Bag she made.
Gail writes: "My friends daughter is turning 2 years old on April 2nd. She LOVES her pooh book bag, but it is so small that she
can't fit much into it, so I used your design to make her a bigger one.  I think she will LOVE it.  I have attached pictures so you can see what I did! Thanks for the great design, Gail"

What a great job Gail! I hope Morgan likes the bag as much as I do.

Ellen from the Netherlands sent these wonderful photos of the Ready Steady Go bag she made for her nephew, 
who's starting school soon. I love the pirate theme and I'm sure her nephew will be the envy of his classmates.


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Lindsay C from Switzerland sent us photos of her purses.

Lindsay writes: "I have decided not to add straps as they will be handy as little bags to be used for scissors, quilting thread, needles and such like.  I will also be adding a fat quarter into each bag before giving them away as Christmas presents for my quilting friends."

 

Make your own fabric
 

Lindsay also sent us a very clever idea.

Lindsay explains the technique:
"I collect all the snipped threads from the beginning and ending of my embroidery (as no doubt thousands of other quilters and machine embroiderers do) and place them in a little box in the hope of using them one day.  Well that day arrived this morning ------- 

 

By placing them randomly on a piece of fabric and placing
 organza over the top, then machine stippling the two together
 to hold the threads in place, a "new look" fabric has evolved. 

I then embroidered a design over the top and voila
slightly different look to the purse, plus recycling the 
small threads. "
What a terrific idea - thanks for sharing with us!

 


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