Autumn Creations

I've been dying to post about my newest quilt but was continually thwarted in my efforts to take pictures. I leave for work before the sun is up and get home just as it's going down, so I can't take them during the week. And every time the sun came out the past two weekends either I wasn't home or I was busy doing something else and couldn't stop long enough to set up for pictures.

Thanks to a few days off this week, I *finally* got the shots. This quilt is a wedding gift for a friend from college who absolutely loved the color red when we were in school together. Now she claims her favorite color is green, so the challenge was to combine red and green and NOT look like Christmas. I am really happy with the result, especially because I completely made it up as I went along. Usually working without a plan does not work out well for me, but this time I love the finished product! It's going to be hard to give up...




But just as soon as I finished this one, I was off to start another. And this one is just for me, so I'll reap the fruits of my labor. I totally splurged and bought a beautiful collection of fat quarters from Amy Butler's Midwest Modern line from ruralFABRIC's shop on etsy.

It'll be a while before I finish this quilt because it's different from any of the others I've made and requires a lot of handsewing. But it's definitely going to be worth it.

While I was shooting the quilt I also got shots of the fall bag I designed...



...because if it were up to me, leaves would turn pink instead of red.

Really I designed the bag for myself, but my mom and I have a new rule that if we make a bag for ourselves we have to make another one to sell in our etsy shop. So this is a two-of-a-kind bag, and #2 is available right here!

Coming soon to the blog and the shop: My mom's totally silly Christmas bag...