Pumpkin : Happy Halloween!

 

 MY PUMPKIN

Here's my orange pumpkin.

Big and fat and round.

It's the very best one,

I could find downtown.

Now I need to make a nose.

A mouth.. some eyes.

Or mother will use it..

To cook or bake some pies.

(Author Unknown)

Pumpkin Pie

Sweet Pumpkin Soup                         Pumpkin Banana Bread

Last-minute project: Little tote bag with pumpkin appliqué. I made it without a pattern, just cut cut cut then sewed.. I will bring my yarns and knitting needle in it, I like to meet my knitting friends tomorrow.

Happy Halloween!

Doily Crochet

Recently, I've enjoyed crocheting.. I have made some doily. I made one for myself and one for my Mom. My Mom asked for a heart-shape and brightly colored, she said she will put it on the coffee table that my Dad used, hopefully they will like it :)

For my quilting project, I combine this flower doily crochet with stems and leaves applique to a bag gonna be.. it looks so vintage.. I love it!

Happy Weekend!

Blue Jeans Bag

A couple months ago, my husband asked for the scissors. He said: "I need to cut my old jeans, I want to make it into shorts."  ((:

I keep the remaining pieces of his jeans. At that time I did not know what would I make with that jeans material.

This morning, with 2 pieces of cut out jeans, I created a simple bag. I sewed a heart doily crochet that I made yesterday, and gave some laces too.

If you like to make it, here is the picture of Heart Doily Pattern

I need leather for the handle, but I don't have it right now. 

Well, I think I can use some fabrics for the handle, and I'll change them later when I find a leather handle.

Bag 2

We asked some ladies who live near my parent's house to join our Quilting Group, some of them are very interested. My sister gives the piecing lesson, my mom taught them how to quilt and I've got my part  in design (to choose fabrics motif  and colors).

"How to make a bag" is the latest lesson that we shared to these ladies. This one is a sample bag that I made for this project.

I fall in love with these two cute applique flowers.. they turn beautifully after I finish the quilt.

If they (village ladies) ready to make some bags, we like to help them to sale their bags to the city. And we hope it will increase their income for their daily needs.

My bag

With this bag I can carry my books , even my laptop fit in it.

What I love about this bag is it has a little house on it .
Cloud, fence and tulip buttons made from wood.

These little applique trees make me always want to touch them,
... look so cute!

I've got the pattern from Japanese Quilt Book, but I made a little modification in size.
It's bigger than the real size in the pattern.
I tried to find the same fabric motifs (which was to hard to do that :)
... but at least the colors nearly the same.