Sunday, April 11, 2010

Friends in Stitching Leanne Beasley Swap.

In March my FIS group had a "Leanne Beasley" swap. The challenge was for ladies to make their swap partners something that Leanne had designed. Below is the parcel that arrived for me from Teresa.
And this is the lovely bag that Teresa made. The design is called "Jackie's Sewing Bag" from Leanne's book, "Living the Dream." Thank you Teresa, your bag is proving to be very useful. You can get so many crafty things in it at once, and I have already used it as an overnight bag!

Sarah's swap gift from me was this bag below. Many of the FIS ladies are in love with Rouenneries fabric so I decided it was a good fabric to use for Sarah. To make the bag I used 2 of Leanne's patterns. The panel/stitchery design comes from the centre block of Leanne's quilt pattern "Butterfly Garden" and I made the overall bag from Leanne's pattern called "The Waverly Bag."

I loved this bag so much I ended up making 2. I just had to have one for myself.!!

11 comments:

Scottish Nanna said...

I love both of these bags they look so pretty.
Hugs Mary.

2paw said...

You ahve done that befored, liked the thing you make so much you make yourself one too!! Very nice bags and obviously very useful too!!

teresa said...

So glad your like the bag Cathy.. The bag you sent Sarah is gorgeous... I can see why you made 2 of them xx

Fer said...

Very lucky girl!

Christine said...

i am not a bag lady, but I love this one.

cheers
Christine

Julie said...

Lovely work, the bags are both beautiful.

Micki said...

The bags are just lovely...you are so talented!
Micki

toni said...

Both bags are so pretty, I can see why you made two of the second one too! toni xxx

Myra said...

lovely bags there! Awesome! 8-)

Margaret said...

As a Bag Lady I would say that your bags are exceptionally outstanding.

Karen said...

The bag with the butterflies is so very pretty.