New Pool Bag

Summer has arrived!  The pool is open and my daily walk has shifted to be a daily swim.

To carry my things each day, I assembled a quick bag using my Market Basket tutorial.  The outside is 'vegan' leather and the inside is a canvas print from Spoonflower.  The vegan leather was purchased from our guild members destash sale and the canvas print was a freebie.  

The bag measures  11" x 4" x 9 1/2" and was as big as I could make it with the supplies I had.   I didn't have enough of the canvas print for the inside pocket so went with a solid.   The bag has a reasonable amount of structure - it will stand up on its own - but might have been better if there were some interfacing.

It was a fun and quick project.  Goggles at the ready, you can find me at the pool. 

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Illusions - A Finish

I've often admired quilters who create a series of works around a theme and I wanted to give it a try.   The idea is to use regular quilt blocks - in this case the HRT (half-rectangle triangle) - to give an illusion of curves.*  (My Harmony quilt design is another example.)

My quilt Illusions is roughly 28" square.  I used Painters Palette fabric in wasabi and black.  (Wasabi is hard to photograph to get true color.  The indoor photo shown below is closer to the real shade.)

The quilting was done with a walking foot and some ruler work with my FMQ ruler foot to get the denser quilting I wanted inside the HRTs with some variety on the width between the lines.  The black HRTs are not quilted.

I took a deep breath before cutting off a corner to emphasize the curve.  My original plan was a binding with a mitered corner bringing the two colors together.  I struggled to get it to look as I wanted so faced binding it is!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

One Monthly Goal May Finishes

Ready to link up your May finishes?

Don't panic - this link-up is open until May 31 at 11:55 pm ET.

Want to see everyone's goals for the month - check out the May goal page!

My goal for May was to turn scraps into bags.  Such a fun project - read more here.

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Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - May Finish Link-up

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Have a wonderful day! Patty