First, thank you to those of you who let me know about the comment page in the new design being dark grey, making the comments hard to read. I get your comments in emails from Typepad, so I don't look at the comment page, and I wasn't aware of that, so I have changed the design again!
Now, on to the Charming Bag. On Tuesday, I was teaching a class at The Quilt Shop, showing the ladies how to make the bag ....... and here we have a big oops - I forgot to take a photo of my bag!! You can just see a little bit of it in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo! I called it the Charming Bag as it is made with a charm pack, which contains 40x5" squares cut from one range of fabric
the ladies were soon hard at work, piecing the front and back of their bags
to make sure I got the right name to go with each bag, I took a note of the order I took the photos in!
Moira's Japanese themed version
Sonia chose William Morris
Hollie arranged her fabrics to go from light to dark
Christine chose bright fabrics
Karen used the same fabrics as Sonia
Pat chose pretty fabrics
Jo too chose William Morris
while Gillian chose soft fabrics
Karen was the first to have her zip stitched in place
after that it got very busy as the ladies sewed at a great rate to get as much finished as possible before the end of the day, and I didn't take any more photos. But on Wednesday, at our usual sewing day, Hollie had almost finished her bag
and Sonia had finished hers!
while I was busy teaching, Malcolm was busy in the kitchen, and when I got home I was greeted with the delicious aromas of a chicken and ham pie!
when we were out and about yesterday morning, of course we went for a cuppa. You know that we usually share a scone, but there was a "morning special" when a cuppa and a scone wasn't much dearer than just a cuppa, so of course we had to have a scone each (and as usual we traded half). This was an excellent fruit scone, with homemade raspberry jam
and this a very tasty cheese scone
I hoped recently that spring is nearly here - and these snowdrops show that it just might be!
we are in Berwick, and as always hope that we will get out for a walk. I hope you have a good weekend, love Anne