As previously posted, one of our guild members, Norma, contributed boxes and boxes of upholstery fabrics that a furniture store was discarding for us to repurpose into totes and journal covers (or whatever we decided to do). Here was her finished samples that she made to inspire us to dive in.
My daughter loved my bee journal cover so with her birthday coming up I made one for her. After making my first journal all these new ideas popped into my head. It was fun to add more embellishing. I was able to find some fun charms to string onto the bookmark cording. I even used a fabric transfer to add a bee to the inside cover, which was a first for me. I certainly have more ideas spinning in my head with that technique.
And it didn't stop there. My daughter came home for Easter. I had a couple fabric samples from Norma to play around with before our guild meeting. My daughter loved this one animal print and some leather samples. She asked me to make her a clutch. So this is what I came up with.
There was a hole in the top of these leather samples, so I embellished over the holes. The first photo has a fun banana pin attached that can be changed. The other side has a green button sewn on. I boxed the bottom because the leather was too thick to sew both sides together at the bottom. This will be a fun birthday gift.
I crocheted her a couple of wash cloths and added a few little trinkets. Her birthday is this coming week and I'm flying out to LA to visit and will deliver her presents in person. She's my birthday girl.
But wait, the gifting doesn't stop here. Check out my next blog to see what I've been up to.
