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Last week, while my husband was away on business, I ventured of the quilting path and into the world of bag making.

A few weeks ago, I picked up a copy of the Miranda Day Bag pattern by Lazy Girl Designs. I also gathered up the required yardages and other materials that day. It became a matter of having both the motivation and the time to create the bag.

I was very pleased with the written instructions and the diagrams in this pattern, and I would totally recommend it to anyone who is intimidated by the idea of making a bag. (I like it so much that I’m making at least two more.) The final product is just the right size for toting around a knitting project.

Check out the photos of my first Miranda bag, which I’ve made for my friend Jess:

The finished bag

Zoom of fabrics

View inside the bag

Total work time: 9 hours

I have two baby quilts in progress. Baby Quilt #3 is a surprise (and at this rate, it might become a first birthday gift), so I can’t really post about it yet.

Baby Quilt #4 is for my friends Chris and Amy, who are expecting their first child this month! I spent yesterday starting the assembly of the top and finished about 60% of it during my work session. I finished the assembly this evening, and I’m really quite pleased with the results.

Now I have “just” the squaring up (and I so love squaring up quilt tops set on point), quilting, and binding left to do. The challenge is to finish it up in the next three weeks, in hopes of the quilt arriving before the baby!

I finally have a name for the quilt, too. I’ll save that for the unveiling of the pictures, which will take place after Chris and Amy have the quilt in hand.

The fabric is the Butterfly Fling collection by Me & My Sister Designs for Moda, and the pattern is 2 Charm Packs, 1 Jelly Roll from French Fantasy Designs. I’ll let you mull that over, and soon you’ll see how your idea compares to mine. :)

I had the best of intentions when I restarted this blog, and for me, I kept up with my production of new projects and reporting out on them here. Life has happened since then, not the least events being starting a new job in July and being a car accident on 8/26/08. (Regarding the latter, I’m okay although shaken.)

By way of catching up some, I’ve completed another three or four quilt tops and have another two in progress. I have lots of photos to take, upload, and document here, and I will endeavor to get to those soon.

One thing that I’m very pleased to report is that I have delivered Baby Boo’s quilt to my friends Jess and Chris, who had their second baby in June. (You might recall the planning from this post and the preview from this post.) Here is a photo of the final product:

I’m really quite pleased with it, as are Jess and Chris. I’m seriously considering publishing the pattern (with measurements and construction instructions) at some point.