Back to business

 I am back from vacation in Connecticut!  We had a wonderful trip and the weather was fantastic.  We went to the Big E(xposition), Vermont country Store, Basketville, Yankee Candle, Whatley, Newport, Waterbury, Foxwoods Casino and lots of other fun stuff.  Coming back to reality like laundry, grocery shopping and pulling weeds!  LOL  And, my stitching.  I finished filling in the bottom leaf with the blend of silver cord.  It is ready to do the twist and couch the cord around the outside.  I also did some stitching in the car.  This is one of the Colonial Needle purses and I bought the initial letter P canvas by Lee and stitched it in the car traveling.

 To do the insert was very easy when I got home.  I trimmed the canvas and removed the protective paper and gently lifted the edges and placed the piece on the sticky surface.  It said to glue the edge but I used double sided sticky tape as it was less messy.  I am impressed with the quality of this bag.  It has a large zipper pocket on one side and two smaller pouches on the other.....think cell phone and pen holder.

The big splurge

Last night I went to Tuesday stitching and my big splurge had arrived.I was amazed to be handed the white drawstring bag. Nice.

So we opened it up........
and this nylon shoulder bag was tucked inside! My shop is starting to carry the Colonial Needle line. She has a lot of fibers for us needlepointers but also carries a lot of cross stitch and charted work. This is her venture into getting into more needlepoint to try and generate more interest in canvas. Yippee!She is starting with some luggage tags and small boxes but also picked up some of the small and medium kimonos that Lee does so well!


Anyway...
This is what the inside looks like. Very well made and sturdy too along with two zippered pockets for goodies!



And last, the canvas I chose for the front of this bag is:






I love the purple hair and the eye shadow and blush she put on with her palette knife! I don't know how long I will be able to hold off before I have to start this!