This is my day for the UR Priceless Blog hop. I joined up on this blog hop because I like to try new techniques.... And gave me an opportunity to try several. At first I was going to make the coin purses out of cute fabrics for my granddaughters. And when I got the pattern form Madam Samm I started grabbing fabrics and sketching ideas....but that name UR priceless kept rolling around in the back of my brain, partly because of the spelling... it kind of irks me to use UR of you are. But the thought of You ARE Priceless kept tugging at my heartstrings....... so we're going to take a little side journey...
This is my second daughter Elizabeth, and her daughter, Kylie.
While this is not the best picture of them, with what I had access to while typing this post, it will have to do. Elizabeth, aka "Bethie", she got that name form her twin (who is younger by 4 minutes). When they were first learning to talk, Sarah called her Elizabeffie and eventually it got to just Bethie. This picture of them was taken at a St Louis Cardinal baseball game this summer shows the fun loving mom and daughter they are. Isn't that priceless? It was a girls' day at the park. all 3 of my daughters and their daughters went to the ballgame.
Elizabeth has been dating this guy, for more than four years now since before Kylie was born. Although not Kylie's father, Randy and Kylie are best buddies. Definitely priceless
Long story short, on Mothers day Randy asked Bethie to marry him and so next year the week before mothers day, they are going to be wed. This will be the last in my priceless family to get married. So while all these other hops and sewing projects have been going on, wedding plans and ideas have been bouncing around in my brain too. And if I would even think about tucking that event in to the back files, Bethie keeps it up in the front by tagging things on Pinterest or texts me pictures of things she wants or wants to to do for her.. : )
SO....with all this wedding stuff floating around in my head, about a week after I got the pattern I knew what I wanted to do.
A very special coin purse that could hold the small treasures of a new bride or the new bride's daughter the minature because both of them are priceless. I have been wanting to do some different fabric techniques and this gave me a chance to experiment and do some odd, possibly interesting effects... and hopefully produce something special for one of the priceless people in my world for her special day.
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| For you on your wedding day because You ARE Priceless! |
There are small pearl beads inside those gathered fabric bubbles above and glass seed beads for flower centers. Does it look bridal to you?
Did you notice the beads in the lacing area on the hardware?
SIDE VIEW... silk hydrangeas between satin and a shimmery chiffon. She is having real hydrangeas so that will be a rememberance but a surprise lining, not the color I had intetended. I had the wistera/eggplant colored satin to use which is in the background on these pictures but because of the lighting (is dark and raining outside.... no natural light to soak up) it appears to be very dark purple and yet is not..... but it alsowould have made the inside quite dark. I opted for this color below...... and those who know me well will laugh. What can I say I like green although for me this is rather tame.
DON"T look real close. I usually pride myself in being neat but the inside is going to need some work to hide some stitching before May. ( yikes!)
Below are some of the process pictures. note flower drawn on pattern PLEASE NOTE: The flower is on the WRONG pattern piece and I ALMOST cut the gathered floweres with those pieces, WHEW, carpenter's rule applies is sewing too!! Measure twice, cut once, always check twice before cutting!!, The flower drawing is basically what I used for the flowers, run gathering sitches and pull the flower center towards you (is the back of the work) leaving the other 5 bumps on top of the work(the right side). Fill the low part of the flower center with some beads. I think what's drawn on the pattern is drawn with dimes. But they were TOO big and after experimenting..... eventually what I used was a shirt buttons to draw around and then gathered the fabric around the small pearl beads. See the flowers layered for the side gussets below? I dabbed a little glue stick to the back of flower center to hold in place while I sewed a single glass bead to the center(each center was done separately and knotted because I figured some may fall in my sewing area and I did not want to sew over them or have the foot catch them. I had to clip a few off because they fell in my basting area for the pattern.
(all edges of pattern were basted and pinked), see below (basting kept things together and gave me a line to match up to and sew inside.
Now I had intended to have a couple of other purses for three priceless little cuties.....
BUT......
one of my friends, (?am re-thinking that, : D ) asked to help her out with some owls pillows, and her time was short. She had bought a pattern on the internet and was having issues.......(her "issues" were, she doesn't sew...lol) and could I help her out with just a few, sure I said and she handed me a LARGE bag of Minkee in various colors, the pattern she bought and said I'll email you the list of what I need..........I got that list 17, SEVENTEEN!!! 4 girls and 13 boys, chicken no wonder she wanted to email me the list, she was not in hearing range, LOL!!!!! It's a Good thing I like her!!!
so here are some sneak peeks at the some of the possible ideas? Corduroy beaks, stuffed or not? Although cute stuffed, thank goodness she opted for not stuffed, one less process!!
Eyes, all kinds but she didn't want the lidded sleepy eyes, she wanted big and bold or big and crazy. Do these qualify?
I will be up with the hoot owls tonight finishing as many as I can and will finish the rest tomorrow night.
NOW, Thank you to
Katherine, my cheerleader divine,
and
Andover Fabrics for gifts so fine, sharing a selection of a of a great fabric line!! Thank you, Thank you I'll say it again, Thank you to all, this is the end.
OH, NO, I'm sorry I forgot to do a freebie stitch thing, ugh I feel awful!! If you're new here, go down to the labels/tags lower right and click on HOW or ORNAMENTS. It's getting to be that time and there's a whole bunch of hexagon ornaments to stitch (Hexagon Of the Week=HOW).
Sorry for re-runs.
I hope you had fun, Look Below to see who's next, Hop over there to see they have created for the UR Priceless Blog hop... creative goodness awaits you. click on......
from being a frog on Halloween.
