A Few of My Favourite Things…

I’m in the United States for the next couple of weeks for a little hol­i­day with my hus­band and our friends.   We’re headed to Savan­nah and Quilt­Con and then will be tak­ing a little trip to Atlanta, Lan­caster County and New York.   It’s going to be so much fun!

Of course, most of you guys aren’t on a vaca­tion so I thought it would be fun to share some pat­terns from oth­er design­ers I’ve been work­ing with lately.   These pro­jects are pretty quick to make and are per­fect to make for your­self or, as a gift for someone.

First up is this super easy and very trendy bag pat­tern from Swoon Pat­terns called the Bon­nie Buck­et Bag.   I’ve been on the look out for a new hand­bag for months but had­n’t been able to find any­thing I truly loved.  Then, I remembered that I’d pur­chased this pat­tern last year and thought I’d give it a go!

I was more than a little nervous about mak­ing the bag but it was truly was a breeze.  The pat­tern dir­ec­tions are easy to fol­low and there are plenty of pic­tures for people like me who need a visu­al.    You can grab your own copy of the pat­tern by click­ing here.

The insert/organiser I made isn’t part of the pat­tern from Swoon but it’s pretty simple to work out once you’ve made the bag.   I cut down the lin­ing pieced to make them short and then added fol­ded over fab­ric to make the cus­tom sized pock­ets.   It sure makes find­ing everything in the bag much easi­er and there is still plenty of space in the middle for all the oth­er ‘stuff’ I know I’ll end up throw­ing in there!

My sis­ter has a birth­day com­ing up so I made anoth­er one for her too.  I love how dif­fer­ent it looks just by chan­ging the fab­rics out for some more mod­ern, bold prints.   I hope she likes it!

The next pat­tern is an old favour­ite of mine.  Its the Fol­dover Needle­book by Aneela Hoey of Com­fort Stitch­ing.  I think I pur­chased mine on the day Aneela released it and its been a favour­ite ever since.  Every now and again I sit down and make a whole bunch of them and every time I do I think I should make more.   Aren’t they cute!  They make a per­fect little gift for sew­ing friends.

Aneela is also the design­er behind the Fol­dover Sew­ing Pouch which is anoth­er one of my favour­ites.   I made a whole bunch of them a while ago and then promptly gave them all away so, as soon as I get home, this is what I will be making.

You can get the pat­terns for the Fol­dover Sew­ing Pouch and Needle­book by click­ing here.

Feel­ing inspired?  I sure hope so!  These pat­terns are a lot of fun.  If you haven’t seen them before they are well worth tak­ing a look at and mak­ing some of these things yourself.

I’d love to hear from you.… Do you have a ‘go to’ sew­ing pat­tern for gifts?   I’m always on the look out for fast, fun things to make to keep my gift box stocked up.  So if you have a favour­ite (or three) let me know so I can check it out 🙂

Have a great week,