Sleep and sew

Three more winks and I am off to Artfest.

( fabric Heather Ross)

Mellow Yellow

What a beautiful sunny Sunday and I was feeling yellow. I pulled all my yellow fabrics out and made this bag which has now a zipper pocket on the inside for some change.

Making trades

Yep, I am off to Seattle at the end of March. This is the last time that Teesha Moore is hosting Artfest on the beautiful Bainsbridge Island. Just before any art retreat family members are forgotten because we are working on our trades. Readers who don't know what trades are I explain it in few words: " it's an exchange  or  gift of kindness" to friends and strangers at the retreat. So we create our best, a small item and you see the first night people are carrying shoeboxes or cigar boxes with their items to trade.
So I came up with this idea for my trades when I discovered on my last trip to JoAnn's a very Anahata look-a-like shopping tote under $2. This is made out of recycled material. I gathered all different bags from Roots , Lululemon (  canadian, yah!), Sobeys, JoAnn's and leftover oilcloth.

I cut front and back into 4 1/2"x 6" pieces for my zipper mini pouch. I have always lots of different coloured 7" zippers on hand because you want the right colour to have the pop effect and some ribbon for the taps. Little details like top stitching and adding a tap on the right side makes it even nicer.

Sewing with oilcloth or any similar material which shouldn't be pinned I discovered one of the best tools from Clover. 

Wonder Clips

Here are my mini pouches :

blurry blueberry from Sobeys

JoAnn Fabric

Which one to choose?

ipad covers

Some of my friends ask me to make sleeves for their ipads. So for the past few days I was sitting behind my sewing machine, a good way to lower my fabric stash and I came up these 3 samples.

Isn't it the sweetest mushroom print from Kokka matched with a woodgrain print.

This morning I finished this bag. Early start at 6 is my best time to get things done. When I selected the fabric ( inside Denyse Schmidt and outer fabric a fine corduroy from Germany) I know it was meant to be for my friend Tracey.

Daylight saving this weekend ( Canada)

So we turn our clocks one hour ahead and we will struggle to adjust to get earlier out of bed.

( iphone apps tiltshift, scratchcam, coloursplash )

My best iphone picks of the week

Wow, do I love this gadget! Here are my favourite snap from this week.

Winter is not over yet!

Ontario had a cold spell and I went for a day trip to check my cottage.

My border collie Skip kept me company on the drive up north.

I couldn't miss the opportunity to take photos with my iphone with the clear blue sky.

I played with my new appTiltShift and and uploaded into ScratchCam.

On my arrival I found a huge pile of snow at my entrance. Thanks township!

After some hard work clearing snow I found a Christmas tin in my kitchen with 2 shortbread cookies left.

I can't tell you how good they tasted. I appreciated every morsel !

Project 365 iphone app

February

I decided to add some larger images of my favourite photos since you can't click and enlarge.

my retro snowman in the backyard

sugar-break

photos taken from Nancy's Brownie collection

dreaming in a pile of wool

was orange my last paint job?

Here is how I uploaded the month to my blog:
open completed month in project 365
press the upper left button ( box with the arrow)
click on save this page
click on save to camera roll
download to your computer on your iphoto

Shopping Tote

I was finally able to take Karyn's shopping tote class last night. I found the perfect vintage fabric from France and matched it with a very Gustav Klimt fabric lining. (buy here )

Karyn designed this clever pattern herself. I had to use a seam ripper once and that called for a break on my sewing machine.

This will be one of my favourite things I made so far and it feels good wearing it over the shoulder.

Flower shopping in style.