Quickies

I think everyone likes a quickie.  Well, I finished off January with two quick projects.  

First, I stumbled across a U-Tube where a woman was quickly sewing a drawstring fabric bag.  I was fascinated at how she simplified the process and was hooked to try it myself.  I grabbed a few of my fabric scraps and tried a couple sizes.  With just a couple measurements, a little sewing and Voila - a quickie bag.  These bags will make great little gift bags and can be put together in just  a couple minutes.

At the AuSable Quilt Guild meeting last week we were challenged to teach another member something quick.  I decided to demonstrate this quickie bag.  The lady that I was matched up with was excited that I shared this with her.  She has six granddaughters and will make each of them this fabric gift bag to fill with candy for Valentine's Day.  And then my friend sitting next to me became interested in this gift bag so I taught her too.  She will be making fabric gift bags to give out for Valentine's Day too. Share the LOVE.

My second quickie was a Minky Childs blanket.  The fabric is 60" wide so I bought enough to square it up to a 60" by 60" blanket.  After squaring up the fabric I measured an inch hem all around.  My grandson that I made it for is two and the ABCs fabric pattern matches his crafting apron I made him for Christmas.  Hopefully soon he will have fun recognizing the letters.

Last is no a quickie, but I'm loading a UFO quilt top, that I came across during my cleaning/reorganizing of my stash, onto my Longarm quilter.  My goal is to have it completed by the end of this week.  Can't wait to report back.