1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Monday, February 18, 2013

Friendship Tote Finished..

Over the weekend I finished my Friendship Tote..

Front

3 Friendship Tote (2)

                                                     Back                                          3 Friendship Tote (1)

I raided my huge scrap bin and found lots of great bits to use for my bag…
Have put some aside to use in later little projects for SAL too.
That's Febuary done, now to check out our next one for March.
This is sew much fun.... I am actually getting projects made out of my beautiful books...

Hugz Maria..
http://maria-lifeontheblock.blogspot.com

12 comments:

Maria said...

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Annie said...

Very feminine! Lovely!

Anonymous said...

gorgeous Maria.xx

laura said...

Yes, it is fun to get full use out of a book of somedays and finally make it reality.

Satu said...

Your book bag is so romantic, lovely flower fabrics!!! I love it!

Fiona said...

It's gorgeous...
Hugz

Chookyblue...... said...

beautiful florals..........

Noela said...

Beautiful. Love the fabrics. Hugs....

Jenny said...

Great use of your scraps it looks very vintage.

Jude said...

Very nice.Its a bag you can take anywhere.

Maria said...

Thank you ladies for all your lovely comments.

Wendy said...

Beautiful!