My Kaffe Ruffly Bag, etc.

Couldn't help myself - I made another bag and this time used Kaffe Fassett fabrics on a heavy canvas like fabric. The red circle of fabric will, of course, be replaced with a pretty big button. Joann has a lot of nice big colorful buttons and, if I can't find something smashing, I will get the biggest button form to cover and do it myself. I made the bottom of this bag wider and like the way it also makes the bag look wider at the top. When I cut the canvas, I did iron on some batting and just quilted some straight lines across the width in such a way that I could follow the seam to add the ruffles. For the lining, I had a pretty piece of striped fabric (part of it is the bottom ruffle in the picture). There are pockets on both the front and the back - a nice roomy bag. Loved the way it turned out. Silly me, I can see more ruffling in my future. Over on http://selvageblog.blogspot.com/ quilts made out of asterisk blocks have been featured and there was a tutorial last Monday and again today on making the blocks and quilt. I have made a couple of them and like the way they look, but don't know how far I would go with doing a quilt of much size. Construction requires slicing the block into two triangles, adding a strip, slicing it again, adding another strip, then slicing it in half with a strip added and that one sliced again and the final strip added. It's pretty but a lot of start and stop sewing. I'll do a few more as it always gets easier as you go along. (Click to enlarge)