As promised, here are two photos of my Korean tissue box cover. As you can see it is designed for the large rectangular boxes of tissues, not the boutique boxes. It could easily be modified to fit the small rectangular boxes. Or quite probably almost any box you have in mind. Within reason.
Here is the cover in use:
And here it is without the tissues. Just a simple rectangle. Well, OK, it is embellished with those cool Asian knots, but those are not essential.
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And here it is, my second green shopping bag! I’m very proud of it. I made this from a pattern in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Quiltmaker. I used squares of the vegetables fabrics Helene gave me for Christmas as the focus prints. The directions have you use duck cloth as a foundation, which gives it stability. It also has a cotton fabric lining, although I don’t think you’d have to make one. The duck cloth works well enough, but having a separate lining gives it a slightly more finished look.
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This is a reusable shopping bag I made recently from a Debbie Mumm panel I got at Jo-Ann’s. It was easy to do, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out. I added a lining to give the inside a slightly more “finished” look.
Coming next: a picture of my other, more impressive, reusable shopping bag…
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I realized that I had promised to post a picture of my crochet tote bag but hadn’t done so yet, so here it is. The pattern is from a book called Hooked on Crochet by Candi Jensen, the same person who designed the pattern for Rebecca’s string bag. It was easy to do, and I really like the colors of the yarn. I’ll have to find something fun to do with the leftovers.
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One of the many items on my To Do list has been to make a valance for Andrew’s room. He only has one window now since the addition to the back of the house, and it was looking very empty. So, I used some of the states fabric, which he loves, that was leftover from his pillowcase to make this valance. I based it loosely on a valance idea in Debbie Mumm’s Cuddle Quilts for Little Girls and Boys.
In other news, the Butterfly baby girl quilt is done! And the baby hasn’t been born yet – this may be a new record for me! I need to take a picture so I can post it. I made a doll quilt for the baby’s big sister, which is done except for blind stitching the binding to the back. And I am crocheting a baby doll for the big sister as well. It’s from Amigurumi Two, Crocheted Toys for Me, You, and Baby, Too, by Ana Paula Rimoli. You can see a picture of what it will look like here.
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Yay, Rebecca has received the crochet string bag I made for her for her birthday, so I can post a picture here now. It is my largest completed project to date and was a lot of fun to do. It is made of 100% cotton thread and is quite stretchy. Since then, I have been working on a crocheted tote bag for myself, which is nearly done. I don’t have any pictures yet, but I hope to finish it and take some soon.
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Not too long after Christmas I made this bag to hold the pieces of Andrew’s “saxoflute.” For those who haven’t seen a saxoflute, it’s a bunch of pieces that you can put together in different ways to make your own instrument – quite cool! I think this was my first (or possibly second) attempt at a double drawstring bag, and it turned out quite well!
I’ve been continuing to work on my formula for cutting sizes needed to get a bag of a certain size. Here’s the “formula in progress” for a two panel (front and back are sewn together on both sides, rather than being one piece of fabric folded along one of the sides) bag:
finished height = panel height – .5D -.75″ where D is the depth of the bottom of the bag
The additional .75″ loss is from the .5″ seam allowance at the bottom and the .25″ seam allowance at the top.
finished width = panel width – .5D – 1″ where D is the depth of the bottom of the bag
The additional 1″ width loss is from .5″ seams on each side.
Any topologists want to comment on my formula?
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I got an email about a week ago, notifying me that my town is having another Handmade Market on April 3, similar to the one I attended before Christmas. It is juried, which I think is a good thing – better quality of items, hopefully. I sent in my application this morning and should hear back on March 5. Here are the examples of my work that I submitted:
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