It's a Bag!

I'm not much of a sewer.  I love making quilts, but I didn't not begin as a sewer.  Clothing patterns may as well be Greek.  That being said, I picked this pattern up from Green Fairy Quilts a while back so when my older daughter needed a "gym strip" bag for school, I used this pattern as my starting point and modified it for use with denim and to the size needed.  I'm very pleased with it and more to the point, so is my daughter!

I'm linking up to:
Elm Street Quilts
Free Motion by the River
My Quilt Infatuation

Little Charmer Wallet

People look at me funny when I say I don't sew, but really it's true!  I just used my zipper foot for the very first time!

The tutorial for this wallet can be found here by Clover and Violet.  Jennie was doing a tutorial for the 2012 Finish-a-Long.  Clover and Violet have a whole ton of similar free patterns here.

Since I've never tried to use a pattern like this before, I make some mistakes, but I'm really pleased with how it's turned out.  The little pocket on the bottom and the hair elastic / button combo veer from the pattern instructions.

The fabric is entirely a set of charm squares from Connecting Threads - the line is called Faux Burlap.