D'oh!

Have you ever been so intent on finishing something, but not really paying enough attention to it that you screwed it up royally?

I was trying to get the binding on my new wall hanging done and being impatient and focusing on too many things at once caused me to miter two out of the four corners backwards. Which I subsequently did not notice until I was stitching the binding on by hand and could only go one quarter of the way around before realizing what an idiot I am.

Which leads me to believe it just wasn't meant to be completed today since I have NEVER in the 13 years I've been quilting and the unknown number of quilts I've created (70?, 80?, 100?) EVER done that.

I have sewn blocks in going the wrong way, put wrong sides facing together more times than I can count, measured and cut the wrong amount of fabric oodles of times, but I've never mitered my corners wrong.

D'oh! and I was all psyched about getting it photographed today too.

Blog Overhaul and Purses

I am overhauling this blog and turning it into a journal of my crafting exploits. Or a motivator to keep me producing things to sell in my Etsy shop. I'm going to post pictures of the things I'm working on and hopefully it will force me to keep going on several projects I have in various stages.

To start off, here are some purses I've been working on. It's a Burda Pattern that I altered because I didn't like the fact that the purse was unlined. I wouldn't want an unlined purse so I figured no one else would either. Unfortunately It makes the bag twice as hard to construct and really adds to production time too.

Because I added a lining to the bags, I realized I didn't purchase enough fabric to complete each bag, which turned out to be o.k. because it's been giving me a chance to destash my vast box o' fabric. (Which is really just an excuse to buy more, right?)

I used Pellon Decor Bond as a fusable stiffener to give the bags body, because while cotton has many fantastic attributes, rigidity is not one of them...