Lennurd's travel bag

[Loop-da-Loop (Loops)]

Heeeeey crafty peeps! Sorry for the absence, extended health issues yet again so I’ve been stuck in bed intermittently, lots of hospital, quacks and physio appointments etc, urgh.

I do have a bunch of things to catch up on tho so hopefully I’ll be posting a bit more regularly now And to start off with, a post in a category I haven’t posted in for quite a while!

So, it was my bff Spammy’s birthday, but I had a teeny puppy that I needed to keep my eyes on every minute or he would eat something he shouldn’t, or pee on something he shouldn’t, so for some reason I decided to cart my sewing machine etc downstairs to make her a pressie instead of just online shopping during puppy sleeping time!

Spammy and I both love stuffies, and they often go on holiday with us and go on trips out, cos why not?! And this is Spammy and her hubby’s beloved tiger stuffie Lennurd

Lenn is currently hiking up a Welsh mountain with them btw, Spammy just sent me a piccie of him mid-hike, lol!

I initially wanted to make a stained glass quilt to hang (I made one yeeeeears ago for a swap, which I loved, but haven’t made one since), but I felt like something functional would be a better gift for her, and she loves a good bag, so hey presto, stained glass Lenn face!

Unfortunately that’s the only in progress shot I thought to take, but it’s better than nothing!

Like me, Spammy loves Halloween, so obv the main fabric I picked for Lenn has sneaky hidden Halloween pumpkins on it

And to conclude… here’s the very puppy I was trying to keep out of mischief back then (around 5kg) … and the beardy giraffe boy he is now at 6 months old (around 25kg)!

Hope ya liked the Lennurd bag, and bonus pup piccies!
Loops xx

[Dfabbric (Diane Fabbricino)]

Love this so much, my daughter was a huge beanie boo collector when she was younger.
The background fabric and applique fabric choices, perfection

[AIMR (Linda -2024 Choose Projects that You Want to Do :us:)]

You have so much patience…exactly what a puppy needs! I love seeing the progress of your two pups on FB as well!

Glad you adapted to sewing with a pup…the things we do for them…ha ha…the bag is so personalized and clever…I am sure it will be used and loved a lot!

[TheMistressT (Tara - she/her)]

Adorable bag! And so thoughtful in fabric choices for you best pal!

Looks like your pup is in the gangly stage! So cute and ridiculous!

[MightyMitochondria (Rose)]

This is absolutely adorable and I adore the choice of jack-o-lantern fabric.

[Bunny1kenobi (Deanna 🇺🇸)]

The bag is awesome! And the pup is so cute! Hope you’re feeling better!

[Loop-da-Loop (Loops)]

Here he is with his bff, my stuffie Mr H, lol Who wants to grow up, NOT ME!!

And thank you, I was certain she’d love the background fabric as soon as I saw it!

[Loop-da-Loop (Loops)]

@AIMR - Aww thanks, I feel like it makes it more acceptable that we take like hundreds of photos and videos of them each week if we share some of them with others you know I’ve managed to migrate my sewing stuff back up to my office now, but when we first got him I set my online shops to only sell stuff I had ‘in stock’ for at least a couple of months so I would have all my time to concentrate on him, only sewing what I needed to to keep me sane!! It actually gave me more time to cross stitch my portrait of our pupper Rosie that we lost last year, which was a nice positive I’ll be sharing that when I’ve finished

@TheMistressT - Thanks, I’ve made her quite a few bags over the years but I think this one was the best because it was the most personal And yes Atlas is absolutely in the gangly stage, he’s all legs like a freshly birthed giraffe sometimes, and he gallops around the house like a horse!

@MightyMitochondria - Thanks, I’d totally forgotten I had it tbh until I went searching through my fabric ‘warehouse’ (lol) to find something appropriate, I think I was going to use it to line a Halloween bag, but never got round to it, and this is even better as now it’s in full view instead!!

@Bunny1kenobi - Thanks, I’m defo feeling better than I was a couple of months ago so that’s a plus, not sure if things will improve anymore, constantly being put on and off different meds and seeing different people, but as long as I can keep on crafting one way or another, and I have my pups (and hubs obv) around me then I’ll keep on going!!

[gozer (Becca)]

Love that this is so personalized and adorable. It must mean so much to her. It should! Love the background fabric of the tiger too. Sneaking in a little Halloween is fun.
And the peppers is adorable and has grown so much!!!

[Abbeeroad (Abbie - she/her)]

This is so cute and personal. Great gift! I had to look up this stained glass quilting technique. I’ve never seen it before! Now I’m so intrigued!

[Loop-da-Loop (Loops)]

I just dug out the piccie of the stained glass quilt I made back in 2009 for the Chocoholics swap! It’s not particularly complex but I really love how it came out

[Abbeeroad (Abbie - she/her)]

Very cool!