This little one is all in blues and white, and since I'm using teeny 1½ strips, I decided to start early. Here's the first 16 blocks done:
I have 64 blocks made so far, and I'm trying to decide if I want just the middle of the quilt to be twist blocks or if I want to cut more 1½ strips and expand this.
I've also been working on a little bluejean purse:
I bought the girls' size jeans at a thrift store for $3, then got a really filthy white vinyl purse at a garage sale for 50 cents... I ripped out all the zippers and useable hardware for this purse, aren't the little brass D rings and clips on the handle cute? A lady at work says they make the jean purse look like a 'real' purse lol.
I had the black star fabric strips left from the border of a quilt, to make the belt, and the beads were left over from another project too. I made another back pocket-flap with a velcro tab just like this one, but decided that two flaps were overkill. Now I'm thinking of beading a little star or heart on the pocket with no flap, what'cha think?
The hardest part of the whole purse was putting in the zipper - I'm bad about tossing my purse on the passenger seat of my van, so I had to have a way to close it securely or I'd be losing change and pens and pencils. :D I couldn't sew the zipper on with the machine around the big lumpy jeans button, OR around the beltloops, so I've still got some hand sewing to do there.
3 comments:
I think the strip twist is coming along nice. I feel for ya using
1.5" strips... gotta have patience eh? and the purse is awesome.I could not put a zipper into save my life.. thanks for sharing
The Jeans purse is very cute. I have a drawer full of hardware from old purses. They really come in handy once in awhile. I probably would have gone for velcro to avoid sewing in that zipper.
The strip twist is looking great. The one you made earlier for your brother looks wonderful too, despite that you used lots of 'uglies' to make it :)
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