Sew Mama Sew sponsered giveaway!

I love making bags, just about any kind of bag. Last year I probably made about 50 as gifts, bags that you can carry, like the one below or bags that you can put things in. I also like to make bags to put gifts in too.

This bag is one of my favorites. It's made with the most wonderful 'echino', one of my favorites to make bags and it's lined with a nice cream color with turquoise dots. The pattern is 'An Everyday Bag' by Favorite Things.

It's got little pockets below the strap on both sides, big enough for a cell phone, a small camera or keys and a pocket on the inside as well. It also has a tie to close the bag with.


I also made a medium sized zip bag with a pocket on the inside. I've made a bunch of these too. Great to hold a small knitting project or all those little things that hang out in the bottom of your bag. I ran out of the cream with turquoise dots, so used a pretty orange striped fabric for the zips.


And, one little zip bag, just for fun. I know, I got a little carried away, but really enjoy making them and one can never have too many zip bags!


So, I'm not going to make you jump through hoops by asking you to leave a bunch of replies, just leave a little reply about what you like about the bags. Please leave me a link to your email and I'll be using the random number gadget to find the winner!

Oh, and international comments are welcome as well.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and for participating with the Sew Mama Sew giveaway!

Good luck,
elsa

This is the first thing I saw this morning (besides my kitties) ~ not the greatest photo ~ but beautiful! It's a wonderous clear day with the sun shining today ~ and the weather man said it was going to snow ~ silly guy. It is cold tho ~ 33 degrees and frost on all my neighbors roofs! Brrrrrr ...


There are a lot of craft fairs here in Portland this time of year and I went to one last weekend and got this cute little bird and tree by one of my favorite crafters, Laurie Romanaggi of Magpie Ethel. She does all these cute vintage decorations that I adore!

At that same craft fair there was a rummage sale too and got that great handpainted bowl for $5! It's one of my favorite fairs, so many creative people there.





This is a shawl I've knitted for a friend ~ think one of the easiest and fastest I've done to date ~ with worsted wool and size 9 needles. Still needs to be blocked and I'm calling it Big Orange. It will keep her really warm and sure hope she likes it!



This little angel is from the handicraft of Kajsa Wikman from her book, Scandinavian Stitches. Her hair is made from metallic thread that I hand stitched in little loops in a really bright pink. Doesn't show up very well in the picture, but she's a cutie, gave her to my d-i-l.
Kajsa's projects are so cute and the instruction are very well written and fun to make.




I have this wonderful, creative and most generous friend, Annie. She knows I love all things bird and so she made me this lovely bag ~ it has two outside pockets and inside pockets as well. Just love it and can put a ton of things in it too! I'm using it for carrying around my sewing projects at the moment, but that could change at any moment to knitting or wool work.

Thanks so much Annie! I love this bag!



I looked at my last blog the other day and saw that I have 15 followers! what a surprise! It's so nice to know that people like what I do and then say really nice things about it ~ I have been really remiss about blogging lately (well really the whole time I've been blogging).

I read a lot of blogs, mostly for inspiration as there are so many creative people out there in blogland and I forget to do my own blogging. Going to try to do more, especially next month as it's my birthday month! I'll be doing a giveaway sometime of something I've made just for it ~ I'll give you more details later.

Hoping everyone is well and looking forward to Thanksgiving.

been busy

this is what I've been doing lately! this bag was for an exchange I did through Sew Mama Sew, a blog I read ~ loved making the bag ~ think it turned out pretty nice!


this little zip pouch was made for a friend, Sarah (who just happens to own Happy Knits here in Portland, Oregon and is the best place to get together with friends to knit!). she loves things that are cute and kitchy so I thought this fabric was right up her alley! and it turned out really cute! and ...

... this is the bag that goes with it! love how it turned out! this fabric is the cutest! got it at Fabric Depot ... comes in a green and purple/blue also (at least I think so ~ tee hee).



this quilt is for my friend Annie ~ she celebrated a birthday this month! being a quilter you don't often get quilts as gifts, so I just had to make her one. there are no repeats in the fabrics I chose! and she loved it.


this last project is a little pincushion that looks like a footstool! got the pattern from Penny over at Sew Take a Hike! she's a very creative person and love all her designs!

the little block on the top I got from my friend Carol ~ a bunch of us went to her house for a sewing day, she was giving away all this fabric and I managed to find a couple of pieced blocks! just happened to have the checkered fabric and it looks pretty cute!

I gave this to Annie for her birthday as well! she liked it too!


I've got a bunch more things I've done lately but couldn't post them ... guess I'll have to do it on another blog post!

hope everyone has a lovely day today! I'm going sewing! really all I have to do is turn around and there's my sewing machine!