We are crafty peeps who love to put our own spin on every day items. No boring stuff in our house! This stitch along is all about putting the fun in functional. Taking items we use all the time and sprucing them up a bit. This will be a quarterly stitch along. Every 3 months we will have a new item to stitch.
Jan-March:
Purses/Totes/Handbags
Inspired by book Bags in Blooms you will stitch anything you want on a purse, tote, handbag or backpack.
I wasnāt sure if that one really counted as stitching for thisā¦Iām actually planning another embroidered pouch for my grandmaās bday gift that I was totally going to post here, though!
I feel like I am still making my way back to the living after 2 weeks of illness, but was looking through fabric today to get started on this. I have been waffling between a light grey quilting weight cotton embroidered with blues, or linen backed with fusible interfacing, also embroidered with blues. I plan on using the design from the cover of the Bags in Bloom book - slightly modified for a smaller/taller/more hipster style bag. Quilting cotton is probably a little light weight for a handbag, but Iām figuring by the time I am done embroidering and beading I am going to want to be extra careful of how the bag is handled anyway. But then again, Linen goes well with practically anything.
