Creativity Blooming

Creativity Blooming
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I've not been feeling well today so I have been camped out on my sofa with a few crafts and books. I've been embroidering and appliquéing and sketching up new projects for the coming year. I also have a little bit of knitting and my Nintendo DS on the table.

For a look at some of my recent projects, follow the picture over to my Flickr page. I'm going to take the week after Christmas to do more crafting. I am developing new projects to teach at the quilt shop and I am so excited about the ideas that I'm coming up with.

I don't like being sick but I don't mind not going out in the cold at all. Hope you all are staying warm. I'm trying hard.

Rainy Days in Chattanooga

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This has been a quiet weekend for me (on purpose). I needed some time to reset and readjust since I’ve been on the road for three weeks. It is so nice to be back home. Right now I am cleaning and doing laundry and getting ready for the week ahead which should be quite fun and exciting. I’m teaching my second class at Lavender Lime on Tuesday and I’ve got some prep work to do to be ready for it. If you are in town and like to sew, consider taking a class at the shop. There are a lot of good ones and I’m looking forward to some interesting ones leading up to the holidays.

Enjoy the rain and be careful if you have to drive in it.

No Sewing For Me

I was hoping to be able to get some sewing done this weekend.  No such luck!  I broke one of the knobs on my Bernina and it is at the shop being repaired.  The shop let me borrow a machine for last week's sewing class but that's as far as I have gotten in the sewing arena. They loved the samples that I made so I'm on my way to teaching a class.  So, for the weekend I am back to my old friend knitting.  Let's see what I can get done.  I did finish up the little pot scrubbers I was working on.

Samples

I spent most of my time this weekend sewing up samples for the quilting store.  I am going to attempt to teach classes at Lavender Lime quilt shop here in Chattanooga.  I made samples for a box bag, vinyl wallet, and the brown bag lunch bag.  The sample in the picture is canvas encased in vinyl.  I'll drop them off at the shop tomorrow and we'll see what the store thinks of them.  If all goes well, I will be on class list for April and May and beyond.

Let me know what you think?  Would you take a class to learn to sew these?

And to reward myself for getting all the samples done, I made a wallet just for me.  I'll upload another picture when I get all my stuff in it.  I'll also be making more of the wallets to add to my Etsy store next weekend.  I think these will be perfect for the spring/summer.  Since the outside is vinyl, it's perfect for having at the beach or in the park and you can throw it in a diaper bag without baby's milk or spilled lotion getting at your cell phone.  :)

Hope you all had a fabulous Valentine's weekend.  It was a beautiful weekend.