Sewing Time

I have a grandmother who is a fantastic seamstress.  She can sew anything.  She's sewn countless things for me growing up.  She does clothes, curtains, upholstery, you name it, she does it.  I have had several opportunities to learn from her.  Once when I took 4H sewing.  Then another time when I wanted dresses and skirts for my sorority dress up dinners.  Both times she walked me through everything.  I have my mom's sewing machine.  What usually happens is I sew something then it sits in the garage for another year before I decide to sew again.  I want to start to sew more now.  I like sewing a lot and I like making things myself.

Anyway, lately I have been in the sewing mood after my friend Lisa showed me this blog and these cloth baskets.  About the same time I stumbled across this blog and her fabric flowers.  Even though I got these ideas from the bloggers I accredit my Grammy for any sewing ability that I have.

I started with the fabric flowers.

Then I tried a cloth basket out of some old material and old jeans.

Then I got the bright idea to make my Mother in Law a new bag to hold her church choir music for her birthday. 

 I actually made up this pattern myself.  I don't like following directions very much and I could kinda picture how I wanted it to be. 

I had some extra material so I made her a cloth basket too...

My Mother in law really liked her bag.  I did too.  I might make something like that for myself but more like a purse big enough to hold a few diapers, of course.  Now I can't wait to go pick up some more fabric at the fabric store.  I just have to think of more stuff to make!