November 12th
Oops! So much for posting every day in November:)
While I haven’t been doing much blog reading or posting myself obviously, I have been fairly busy with other things including sewing bunches. Although the weather has been crummy all day today so I don’t have any photos to show of what I have been working on. (The *joys* of taking photos with natural light only….) On Friday I did consider showing some photos of my studio, but then after looking at the photos I decided against that because it was just too embarrassing. I seem to work better in a mess:) Although that mess doesn’t make for very nice studio photos. (If enough of you say that you want to see the photos anyways, I might be persuaded to share. Although I might have to do some photoshopping first:)
Kelly did get my swap package for the fall swap though, so I can finally share what I made her & sent in my swap package to her! The falling leaves tote that I made her….
The leaves are brown linen appliqués that I hand-embroidered onto the lighter colored linen. It took awhile, but definitely worth it in my opinion! (So much so that I hesitated when it came to actually mailing her the tote…. I thought about keeping it for myself for about 2 minutes:) I left the edges of the leaves raw so there will be a bit of fraying but I thought that would sort of complete the natural look I was going for with this… It was pretty funny trying to decide how exactly to place the leaves too. I actually placed the leaves out, took a photo, and emailed it to my mom who was a wonderful help:) (Between us on the phone we decided that leaf in such a place needs to move just a bit to the right, etc…)
Inside the tote I did a pocket divided down the middle to split it into 2 pockets….
I also made the tote handles a bit different on this bag (not sure if you can really tell in the photos). I think that I am going to use this new handle method I discovered for all the bags I make from now on. It looks a bit more professional in my opinion…
The rest of the goodies I sent her… Martha Stewart Living (just looked so fallish), 3 fat quarters, gift tags, & pretty tape:)
This is what happens when you slack off on blogging a bit… I have more stuff to share like photos that I took this weekend at a local park with Ben, but I think I will save those for a different day:)
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I’ll share a warts and all photo of my workspace (our dinning area in an OPEN plan LKD), in return for a shot of your studio unphotoshopped. I bet my space is a bigger cockroach den than yours!! (^o^)
BTW the fall swap parcel looks awesome!
beeeautiful bag, c. i love it!
Ooh, that tote turned out great. Looks like it’s a great swap package to receive.
Wow I love the bag!!!! To think you even appliqued by hand way to go. Also Loved the other goodies you sent your swap partner, I’m sure she will put everything to good use.
What a wonderful, original bag! I would have considered keeping it myself. You can always make yourself one, of course.
I can not thank you enough Chara! The package was wonderful and the bag is so great! Reading about all the trouble you went through to place the leaves just right makes me feel even more special for receiving such a lovely handmade gift. thank you again! -kb
Wow Chara, that is an AWESOME bag! What a wonderful package you put together!
Love the bag, great job!
I love your “falling leaves tote.” What a cute idea.
What a cute bag and a wonderful swap package! I may have to steal the bag idea from you!
Really, really pretty swap, Chara!
your tote is GREAT! I love that the leaves will fray over time. such a pretty swap package all around!
what did you do differently for the handles, if you don’t mind sharing? i have such problems with making handles…for various reasons.
so glad to hear someone else asks their mum for advice with their sewing! i know i do regularly. i think the leaves will look lovely with the raw edges over time and i love the contrast lining. beautiful.
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