Latest project

Firstly is has been nice to have had a night without any rain at all.  It has been pretty soggy around here but nothing compared to what the people of Brisbane and further north have had to contend with over the past week.

I used to live and work in Brisbane a few years ago, and where I lived and worked is now under water from an overflowing Brisbane River. The scenes of streets I know well being inundated to that degree is quite surreal, fortunately the river has peaked under the estimated level, at this stage anyway...

During my Christmas break one of my relatives spied my patchwork bag which she liked. I asked her if she would like one and she quickly answered yes! So I have been busy making blocks for the front and back. I have made a few of these bags in the past several years, they hold a lot and can be thrown into the washing machine and dried on the line without doing them too much damage.

The top picture is the closest to the colour of the fabric. The blocks are Foundation Paper Pieced and are designs created by Carol Doak, the queen of paper piecing!   I have several of her books and belong to her yahoo group.  She is currently doing a BOM and most people will end up with a quilt, but I decided to use two of these blocks for the bag.   I had instructions that bag had to have a dark brown background, so the setting triangles and body of the bag will be 'Cocoa' Cotton Supreme (RJR) and the blocks themselves are made of scraps I have left over from other projects, they are all solids.   I just love the quality of the Cotton Supreme and use it all the time.  

I also decided to frame the block with another colour to break up the brown a bit. Hopefully I will get it basted in the next few days and then it will be ready for machine quilting. I'll be sure to let you see it when it is done!

Thanks for stopping by girls (you know who you are!) your encouragement and support is greatly appreciated.

Merilyn