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My teacher’s gifts are in the bag…
Nothing like leaving things to the last minute! But I finally decided to make my kid’s teachers the Lickety Split Bag from Made by Rae. I love the look of the bag, and the name sounded promising for a procrastinator.
And Rae was right. This bag not only sews up lickety split, it is a wonderful bag pattern. The instructions are clear and easy. They couldn’t have been nicer to follow.
I made two, and I must say, I like the feel of the heavier Oz by Sanae from Moda fabric in the bag shown above. It gives the bag a little extra weight. I let my son pick the fabric for that bag, and I think he did well.
The other bag fabric was Lotus by Amy Butler, which I love, for the second bag. And it turned out a very elegant.
I hope the bags will be useful in carrying books… or other supplies back and forth to school next year.
Last night after I finished them, I lay awake thinking of puns to put on a card…
“You’ve filled me with knowledge…”
“You’ve carried me on your shoulder this year…”
“My heart is split in two that this year is over…”
And I have one thing to say… it’s a good thing I didn’t act on my 1:30 am thoughts.
I think we’ll just settle on “Thank you.”
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I’m all a buzz, Nanette from Freda’s Hive is here
waffle cloth. When I made dish towels last year I thought it would
be good to make some dish cloths too, but I ran out of time. I finally
took an evening a couple weeks ago to make these dish cloths and it
was really easy and fun. I’ve since found out that (of course) I’m not
the first to make these waffle dish cloths. Lynn (thanks Lynn)
let me know that Amanda
Jean had written about this on her blog too. But I thought I would
post about mine anyway. What the heck.
carries it and Moda makes some waffle cloth too. You can also get
it here,
here
and here
among many sources. It comes in several colors and textures/patterns.
Lynn and the Amanda Jean post let me know that it is best to wash the
waffle cotton BEFORE sewing into dish cloths. Unfortunately I didn’t
think of that before hand and haven’t washed mine yet but I’ll
certainly prewash before making my next batch of dish cloths.
I used my 9 1/2″ template to cut the waffle cloth intosquares.
I’m always looking for ways to use “left overs”. I usedextra Jelly Roll strips from from the Moda
Sweet line. Don’t we all have extra Jelly Roll strips hanging
around? Yes. The 2 1/2″ strips worked out just great. There was enough
length to join the ends of the binding with a bit to spare.
I just sewed the strip on the waffle cloth like regularquilt binding.
Then I pressed the binding flat and then pressed itfolded over to the back of the cloth.
I top stitched some of the binding, stitching on thefront so that it caught the binding on the back of the dish cloth.
And some of the dish cloths I stitched in the ditch,catching the stitching on the back of the binding. I think either one
worked well and it would be a personal preference which method to use.
This is a view from the back where you can see thestitching is close to the edge and does tack the binding in place.
Here is another view from the back. It was an easy project and it makes a very simple andinexpensive gift. I used them last weekend to give to my sisters and
friends along with some great smelling countertop spray I bought on
sale here.
And no, I didn’t pay the price they have listed.
-nanette
