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    Bike bag



    It was such an overcast, cold crumby day that I needed to find something to do in the house and I certainly didn’t feel like cleaning today.

    I made this bag to carry my “park-play” items. Water bottles, mini first aid kit with instant cold pack, my cell phone, sunscreen and sometimes a snack. I do still need to put a closure on the bag but haven’t decided if I’ll have the flap go inside or outside. I’ll likely just use Velcro since it’s quick and easy.

    The denim is from another chair slipcover and the patchwork came in a bag of scraps I got in a free box at a sale.
    Total cost of project: virtually nothing…just my time and a little electricity.

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    Fabric ATC’s

    These are for an Anything but Paper ATC swap.

    I took a scrap of old table cloth and started randomly sewing fabric scraps on using different colors of thread and stitches. It was fun playing with the different settings on my machine.

    I took a ATC template and traced the proper sizes on the back then cut on the lines. I did a zigzag stitch around each to hold everything together.

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    Recycled denim bag


    I’m still working on busy bags for my friend’s church. Slowly but surely I’ll get a dozen made. This one was made from another part of the denim slipcover I recently cut up. The quilt block came in a scrap bag I inherited. I decided to try out one of the “fancy” stitches on my machine to sew it on. I like the contrast of the red thread.