Bag lady

I've been playing around with upholstery samples recently,

sewing them into bags of various shapes,

depending on the size of the sample.

Here are some box pouches measuring about 6 inches by 4.5.

All of these use 8 inch zippers scored from my local thrift store

for 10 cents each.

I engineered some fabric from braid to make a bag

and then took it a step further by sewing zippers between the braid

With a facing and a lining, it's now a five zipper, five compartment pouch!

Here's the whole bunch.

They're all headed to a local charity craft sale at the end of the month.

I'm off to a retreat this weekend 

and will work on my quilty projects there.

Just packing up the Singer Featherweight and its folding table now.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at:

TGIFF

Crazy Mom Quilts

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

All zipped up

  I've been upcycling upholstery samples into zipper bags lately, adding zippers from my stock of 10 cent zippers and using up metres of twill tape from a factory sized roll, all in the name of charity.

These 38 bags go up for sale this weekend at the Mennonite Central Committee quilt show and sale.  All proceeds go to MCC's international relief and development work. 

I've had fun playing with these colours and I hope potential buyers find one or two they can love and take home. 

I've got several quilts hanging in the show and after I help to hang the show tomorrow I'll get some pix to share here.