Christmas Gifts for the Stitching Group

I have wanted to find a pattern for project bags after seeing such splendid specimens on Faye's blog the Carolina Stitcher.  I knew that I could do a stitching bag for the Stitching Group as a Christmas present.

I got a Heart and Hand pattern that had the finishing instructions. 

Instead of the stitched pattern that came with it, I stitched With Thy Needle and Thread Sewing Bird.  

I picked up the fabric at the local quilt store.  It's a Civil War reproduction and I thought it would go well with the stitched piece.  

I should have taken a picture of the inside of the bag since there are two pockets. 

 I used the red fabric for that.  

I did make a little beaded bling as a zipper pull in the colors of the fabric.  

Arttie said, "You even put in zippers."  

I told her, "I did take sewing in high school.  I even know how to make flat feld seams."  

Not that I use them very often.  

In my younger days, I did sew a few skirts with matching purse covers.  

I had one of the wooden purse handle with the covers that buttoned on. 

I really don't like to sew other than for things like this.

I don't like sitting at a sewing machine so I don't know that I ever would be a quilter.

The latest update on the LK Mystery Sampler.  

Don't know that it will be done by Christmas.  

That's okay

Katy got home yesterday and she'll be home to New Year's Eve.  We have errands to run today.  Buster is having a spa day so he'll be all buffed up for Christmas.  I don't know that you could buff up Henry Ford.

Thanks for stopping and keep on stitching.

Monica