Bag It...Part II....

Yesterday, Velina taught the second part of the class for the "Diva Essential Designer Bag". Once again, these bags were fantastic! These guys were the maiden voyage of this class...and they all did great. I got a few pictures, but will have to add the other two later. This first one is a picture I took at the end of the class. Carole's is the one on the right. She used some great fabrics in blues and did some quilting with metallic threads. The one next to it in the black and white is Jo's. Can't tell if you can make it out, but she used one of our newer African prints of zebras for part of the bag. (She actually visited there a few months ago and climbed Kilimanjaro!) And in the first photo, you can kind of see the "original" bag Velina made in the background. The other picture is Diane's which is done in an older Laurel Burch fabric. She did some great quilting around the animals to make them "pop". The bag opens up and has a zipper the length of it, lots of great pockets, and can be worn as a backpack! Before you rush in for the pattern, wait a few days, because it's on order again!

Today was another day full of fabric here at Fab-Etc. We received the new Kansas Troubles line - Cranberry Wishes. It is a Christmas fabric, but only one bolt looks like Christmas. The rest is just beautiful KT! And the other group we got was a Thimbleberries one similar to the two holiday panels we had last year. Didn't have much time to "play" with it today, though, so more info to come.

Diane layered up a darling jungle panel so we can ask our Jan to quilt it when she gets back from her trip. Think she's reading this from afar? And today was the first day that our newest Team Fab-Etc member, Emily, worked. She is a fantastic young lady who's going to WCC. And she is a real worker, knowledgeable about sewing, catches on quickly and will be a wonderful asset to The Team! Hopefully, we didn't scare her off with any of our silliness! I am sooo fortunate to have the best employees anybody could ever ask for. Oh...and we got to see Alicia's new grandson, Gerrit. He is absolutely beautiful!

So, as you can see, we had just a wonderful day today here amongst the fabric. Have a lovely weekend!

P.S. Week II of seeing the top of my desk - I think it's becoming a habit. YES!