Paloma Tote Weekender Bag

I tested the larger size Paloma Tote Weekender size bag by Imazz Patterns recently and she has it for a fantastic price right now at half price!!!

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Paloma Tote and Weekender Bag (pattern includes 2 sizes) is a practical, simple and attractive bag. Intended for airport use and travel, the main feature is a luggage/trolley sleeve at the back (the optional plain/ no-sleeve version is provided). The bag can be use as a hand-carry in airplane and placed safely atop bigger suitcase. However, you can also use the bag for everyday needs, especially shopping or as a weekender bag. The two sizes will delight any big bag lover. So go ahead and choose your favorite materials, colors and start making this multi-functioning bag!

Bag features a front slip pocket, which I accidently placed opposite of the pattern placement 😜, a zipper pocket too. The back you have a choice of the luggage sleeve with a zipper pocket (or not) or a plain panel with no pocket. The bag closes with a recessed zipper or you can choose to add a snap if you prefer. Inside you can add a slip pocket or a zipper pocket or both.

For all of you who sew or quilt, this would also be a great bag to make with the back luggage sleeve to slide over the handle of your sewing machine trolley/cart too! Then you could put your project in the bag and wheel your sewing machine to a class or a retreat.

Slip pocket and zipper pocket on the front.

Divided slip pocket inside.

Luggage sleeve with a zipper pocket.

Using a quilt ruler to show the luggage sleeve. 

Medium Tote is 14" high x 14" wide x 4 1/2" deep.

Weekender (larger size which I made) is 15" high x 17" wide x 5 1/2" deep

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Sew Powerful Purses # 61-63 for 2025

Three more purses donated to Sew Powerful. I fussy cut these Debbie Mumm fabric centers from a fabric I have had for years. I appliquéd them onto a fabric background and sewed fabric scraps around until I had the size I need to trim into the purse flap. Glad I could use those Debbie Mumm prints at last and scraps of fabric as well. All have denim purse bodies and webbing straps.

Backs with pockets.

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Sew Powerful Purses #59-60 for 2025

Another 2 purses I donated to Sew Powerful. I used a fabric that had these sweet squares all over it and fussy cut them for the center, placing some on point if they weren't directional. I made several that are similar to these. It was a fun print to use scraps all around for the flap. I used denim for the purse bodies.

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Sew Powerful Purses #57-58 for 2025

Two more purses donated to Sew Powerful. I wanted to play around with yarn couching using up some scraps of yarn, so these 2 purses are the results. I used a denim for the purse bodies. I also stitched a decorative stitch on one webbing strap.

Some added buttons and crystals for extra bling.

A bit of ribbon on the back pockets. The ribbon hides the seam where I needed to piece the denim to make the pockets large enough.

Closeup look at the gridded flap.

Closeup look at the wavy yarn couching.

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Sew Powerful Purses #55-56 for 2025

2 more purses donated to Sew Powerful. Denim purse bodies, appliqué flowers on the flaps.

Appliqué flowers.

Front pockets and flap linings.

Decorative stitches on one and a pocket added to the other back side.

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Dancing Pigs Quilt (Donation Quilt)

Here is another quilt donation I made and sent to Wrap the World with Quilts. I made the center part of this quilt almost a year ago. Later I made the free form pieced blocks in red and green and sewed those around the center. It sat for months as I didn't know what else to do and it needed more to make it larger.  I finally decided to make some string blocks and add them and call it done! I forgot to measure the quilt, but it measures about 42"-ish square? I need to remember to measure and write these things down 🙄.

After all these years, I finally tried sewing the binding completely by machine. It is soooo much faster! What took me so long?

I quilted the center area with double wavy lines.

I quilted the string blocks in a serpentine stitch.

I hope a little girl who loves to dance will receive this quilt.

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Scrappy Greens Quilt (Donation)

This was another quilt I made and donated to Wrap the World With Quilts. All scrappy green fabrics.

Quite a variety of green shades and prints were used.

Quilt was backed in this lime green flannel and quilting with a serpentine stitch.

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Scrappy Multi-Colored Quilt

This scrappy quilt was another quilt I donated to Wrap the World With Quilts. I forgot to measure the size of this one, but it is a good size lap quilt.

Used mostly multi-colored scraps to make this quilt.

I did make a small dent in the multi-color fabric scraps.

Flannel llama backing and simple diagonal quilting.

I hope this is a comfort to whoever receives this quilt. 🤗😙.

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Pink Scrappy String Quilt with Appliqué Flannel Bear

I love scrappy quilts and string quilts are one of my favorite types of scrappy quilts. When I make quilts to donate to a child, I like to add a touch of appliqué to the quilt to make it more kid friendly and cuddly. I also use flannel for the quilt backing for softness and cuddly comfort too. I love the color pink, so this quilt looks great to me in all its pinkness 😂. Pink is a calming color too, so whoever receives this quilt, I hope they love it! 

I donated this quilt and 7 other quilts to Wrap the World With Quilts, which is located in Lehi, Utah. They then send quilts anywhere in the world where quilts are needed, such as Ukraine, those who lost their homes in the California fire, Thailand and so many other places. I think this is a wonderful cause!

WTWIQ accepts quilts in any colors, prints, sizes and for all ages, so I like that I can make something and not have to be concerned if the fabric is something that one culture or another could be offended by as I am sure WTWIQ will not send anything to a place that a certain print could be a problem. 

I mailed my donation box to them on Thursday (via UPS) and they received it on Friday the next day! Be sure to use the Give Back Box on their website to mail your box of quilt as you can send up to 50 pound of only $20. I put 8 quilts of various sizes into the box, plus they take fabric donations and quilt rulers and supplies too, so I gave them rulers I don't use as well as some fabric to fill up the box and the box only weighed 29 pounds, so I could have put more into the box, but it was full. You can even send just the quilt tops and they will quilt them. I will be sending in some larger quilt tops once I get them made, since it's a struggle to quilt anything large for me. I will be able to get more tops done in a fraction of the time it takes me to finish an entire quilt, and get more tops in a box than quilts, which will help me to use up more fabric faster. YAY! Sounds like a win-win-win to me!😉

A flannel bear appliqué is so cute. I didn't want to worry about using button eyes if a child under 3 got this quilt, so I used plastic Kam snaps for the eyes! Those eyes are super secure and a child couldn't remove them or even an adult! 

Love all those yummy pink prints and shades of pink.

Flannel quilt backing quilting in a serpentine stitch.

I will be sharing the other quilts I donated to Wrap the World With Quilts soon too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #48-54 (2025) Made from Starbucks Aprons

These 7 purses that I am donating to Sew Powerful were made upcycling 4 Starbucks aprons. My daughter works at Starbucks and when she got new aprons she was getting rid of these, and of course I thought Purses! She had 3 red and 1 green apron and I was able to get 8 total purses out of the 4 aprons. I had already posted one green purse body with an appliqué flower on the flap using the green apron here. Thanks sweet daughter! 8 girls will benefit from me making 8 purses for them to stay in school all year. Yay!

I got 4 purses with the Starbucks logo for flaps and had to make 4 more more total flaps (the one I mentioned above in green) and the 3 raw edge quilted flaps further down below. The aprons all have 2 front pockets and I used one of the apron pockets (plus a bit more fabric around the pocket) for each of the total 8 backs with the aprons pocket still attached, so no need to make a pocket, yay! I also pieced together enough of the apron neck straps to create 2 purse straps and I used webbing for the other purse straps.

 The Starbucks logo is a two-tailed siren, which is inspired by the Greek myth of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their deaths with enchanting songs, and represent the company's connection to the sea and Seattle, where it originated. Nice, huh? 😬

The logo was up high on the apron, so I couldn't bring it down more. I wanted to add embellishments on the flap so it looked more appealing and so I used rickrack, lace, buttons, crystals, machine blanket stitches and some French knots.

The back of the purses show the apron front pockets.

Closer look at the apron pocket on the back.

I had to create flaps to go with the remainder of the apron fabric that I used for these purse bodies, so I added raw edge scraps and quilted them. I added embellishments of buttons & couched yarn.

Closer look.

Another purse closeup.

3rd purse closeup.

These all had the apron pockets I used on the backs too.

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