Second Purse made!

AT last!
I have wanted this purse done for many years now.

Two more are cut out and ready to be assembled but it will be awhile before they are done

 Interior view

Everything about this purse is just perfect. 
Thank you Indygo Patterns!

Finally got the purse made!

Having bought the Indygo pattern 4 years ago and thanks now to a workshop at the new Wabash Valley Quilts store, I have made my first purse.

Another one sandwiched!

I am working on 4 quilts for charity and yesterday I got this one "sandwiched".  

At the sew-day a friend got this top sewn together.   The letters are from a relative of hers written during the Civil War.   The colors in this photo are not at all near how wonderful it looked.    It is a really awesome piece. 

Clamshell at last!

I've been sooo wanting to do the clamshell style quilting (I have a nice template for it) all over a quilt and after over a weeks thought I decided it would be good to do on my feedsack squares quilt.

 And here is a picture of the Utaupia quilt I am hand-quilting (the sashing) and machine quilting (the squares).  I'm using another of my stencil collection for the sashing and just love it!

Something done....

I managed to get things done this past Saturday sew-day.  Finally this top is sandwiched and I can begin hand-quilting it.   How I plan to do so is unknown just yet but it will be hand-quilted.   It has been put away so long awaiting sandwiching that I forgot how delightful the colorful square are.

I also got the main body of my taupe quilt sandwiched in sections.   I started quilting the sashing just for the heck of it and love the swirly lines.    The sections are perfect for taking to work and doing some stitching on my lunch hour.   I am planning, at this point, on machine stitching in the ditch for the main body of the blocks.

This and That....

Aren't these cute?  Crumb block of 30's fabrics.

This is the first of three Saturday Sampler quilt tops being "arranged".

 The newest project which stressed out my arms so I've had to take a break from it.  It is a Darlene Zimmerman pattern from one of her books and the yellow you see is going to be used for sashing.  In her pattern she uses blue, yellow, purple, green & orange as best I can see but no red.  I have added in red.  My top will be 7 x 8 blocks.   These cute l'il shamrocks are only 6 1/2". 

A couple of all blue 3 1/2" crumb blocks just for fun!

Two More Civil War Love Letter blocks, 10 to go!

Here are two more done.  I have only 10 more blocks to finish before I am DONE!!!

Another Battle

Indications