sewing

 These are Amelia's last two sewing projects.

I found the pattern for this fruit bag here. It is a great pattern because it gives you the choice of a few different types of fruit just by changing the colours of fabric and the seeds you applique onto the bag.

Amelia made this bag today and was it ever a HIT! She had picked the pattern last week and it was supposed to have rope handles. She had forgotten to get rope to use and was a little disappointed when she showed up this morning. Little did she know that the little knitting store down the street from us had put out a big bin of plastic handles with a "FREE" sign last weekend. I scooped 10 pairs so she was able to use them in place of the rope. It was a surprisingly easy bag to make. She sewed everything by herself except doing the casing for the handles which was a little tricky even for me to do.

We are starting a big quilting project next week which will take probably 4 weeks to complete.