Little Logcabin Bag

Hi all! I hope you're all having great weekends.

I spent a lot of time sewing last week. I realized I am doing
pretty good this semester and thought to give myself some
reward: time to sew;) This little bag is what I made today.
One of my friends is coming to visit me from Japan in later this
month. She will be my 6th friend to fly over to see me since I
moved down to California last year. I am such a lucky girl to be
visited so often. I always get excited about my buddies coming over.

I make it a point to make my friends some sort of handmade gifts
when they come over here, hoping that the gifts can be parts of
their memories of journeys. So, this logcabin bag is going to be hers!



My calculation was off. I thought I cut out pieces of fabric
just enough to make a bag, but there was excess, so...




with the rest of the fabric pieces, I made two coasters!
I really like how both the bag and the coasters turned out,
and I have a pretty good feeling that my friend will like them too;)




Oh! Here comes good news!! I bought the feet for my sewing machine!
Yaaaaaaaay!! Thanks so much for those of you who gave me advice on
how to look for them. I ended up buying them online from SewShop.com.
I highly recommend this shop. I ordered my feet Monday night, and
they were in the mail box on Thursday. Super fast delivery!
(and it was free shipping!)




So the penguin quilt is almost ready to be quilted!
I am thrilled as it's getting closer and closer to
be a completed quilt. My old digital camera is not
very nice when I take pictures of objects that are big.
(as you can see how low quality this picture is).
My friend who's got a nice SLR camera will be so nice to take
some shots of this penguin quilt for me once I finish it up.
I am really excited about that too;)



I have some links to nice fabric baskets again!

Fabric Baskets by Lurline, Willow Witch, vivie95, Mara Porto,
quiltgrl_ 2000, Ruthie, Bloom, and Pat!

Special thanks to Sew,Mama,Sew! and Quilting Gallery
for featuring my fabric basket tutorial!!



Check out more creations;)


Thanks for reading!

Penguin Quilt in progress

One more border added!
These four blocks are my favorite ones among 9 blocks.



Overall, it looks like this so far.
In retrospect, I should have chosen fabric with stronger impact
for the last borders of the orange and brown blocks to nicely
match with other blocks, but I guess I'll see how it goes with this.

I now know 90% of the result of this project. I'll add another border
for each block, which will be the same dark blue polka dots fabric I used
around the penguin fabric. Then, I'll attach sashing separating all the
blocks and surrounding them. I'm debating on sashing: either very light
pink fabric, white, or beige linen. Then, I'll do machine-quilting ;)
I bought a darning foot at Joann yesterday but it didn't fit my sewing
machine;( .. I have to find a walking foot and darning foot that
work for my Singer Quantum 9910. Lastly, I'll finish up this
mini quilt with a dark pink binding tape.



I can barely wait to see the finished quilt on the wall
next to my crafting table! But what I can't wait even more
is to start working on a new quilt! I am going to make one
that will be hung up above the couch in the living room.
But what I seriously can not wait is for this semester to
be over..Bottom line..! I dream about working with my sewing
machine with no worry whatsoever about school work during
the Winter vacation. Oh my..it will be heaven! Time, Please fly!!



Ready for more cool links?!

Fabric Baskets by Debbie, Helena, Michelle, El Taller de Candela,
Pat, Issacsmama, Kimberly, Katie,
sparklygreenknickers, Angela, Lori, Terri S,
manmanance, lia-t, and patchworks et broderies de caco!

Reversible patchwork Bags by Hannah, Erleperle, Meagan, Terri,
Amy, Lua, and Beth!

Camera Case by Jane!


Check out more creations;)


Thanks for reading!