Grocery Bag Take 2

First off, sorry for the poor photos. We are having some crazy stormy weather today. It is unbelievably dark out and hailing at the moment. Not to mention they had a tornado south of us in Aumsville, Oregon.
I much happier with the overall size of the bag. Finished dimensions are 14 1/4" high x 11"wide x 7"deep. I made patchwork squares smaller in width so I now have 6 per side.
Colin and I have been taking turns sewing, I think it is very kind of him to let me know when it is my turn again :) He was super excited about me having the camera out so I graciously let him take one of me. Not bad for no makeup and an awkward angle. I am amazed he can even hold the camera up and get us in the frame :)Time to go wrap some presents, which means I need to have National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation playing on the television.  

Take 1 & Some Scraps

I was inspired by this bag 

I am pretty happy with it but I did start on bag #2 last night with some minor changes, mainly size increases. I think my favorite part about the reusable grocery bag is that I didn't have to turn any of it right side out to sew it together :)

My little helper has been carrying it around since we finished it. We have gotten pretty good at sewing together, now if my lap would just stop decreasing in size we would be set ;) As we are trying to simplify everything and keep things to a minimal around here I thought I would give away my scraps from this project. Anyone interested??  If so just leave a comment saying you are interested in the scraps (or something along those lines) and I will randomly pick a comment on Monday morning.             

Happy Friday!

Yes...

I do still sew :)

I made these for last months Portland Modern Quilters Guild meeting. I had the hardest time deciding on which fabrics to use to make the 15 1" size hexagons. I finally decided to use fabrics that I really love but have not used yet :) We were supposed to bring them in a paper sack, I of course didn't have one so I made this

I hope the recipient liked the hexies, I know I really liked the ones I got. Now I just need to use them :)