And again I’m too late for “Make something”, sigh, life is a bit stressful at the moment so excuse moi. I’ll promise to try and post the next one in time. So here are this weeks helpful links:

Narrow Hem - useful for a lot of projects

Hong Kong finished seams - a pretty fancy way to finish a seam

A line skirt - draft your own skirt pattern

English paper piecing - Staci, this is for you and your hexagons :)

Piping -learn how to make perfect piping (video)

Paper Beads - make yourself some pretty paper beads

Miter Quilt Corner - you can also miter your quilt not only your binding

Wonky Log Cabin - Log Cabin + Wonky = a lot of fun!

This week was a great week package wise. First Paloma’s package, and then Kate’s. Kate is my swap partner from the Fat Quarter Swap over at I’m a ginger monkey, and she sent me these great fat quarters together with really cute buttons, stamps and pendants, all wrap up with little hearts and puppies. 

Oh and I got some new fabric from Tony too that I’ll show you soon, but there are still four packages missing so I’ll try and wait for them.  

Want to show off your Stash? Join the Sunday Stash at 1/4 of an inch.

Wanna see more stash? Check out the Sunday Stash flickr group.

I think it’s time for a little game: Guess the mess. Here you see a whole lot of fabric and now you have to guess on which project I’m working on…..

….it’s the Amy Butler Weekender Travel Bag, and the mess in the picture is the fabric that took me 3,5 hours to cut. Argh. If I’ll every make this bag again somebody else has to do the cutting, seriously. Does anybody else hate cutting as much as I do? Anyway, I hope I’ll finish the outer shell of the bag this weekend and then make the lining next week. Now I have to pack up my little sewing machine and get it over to Tony’s apartment and start sewing.  I’m still not sure if I used the right interfacing and my machine is acting kind of weird lately, so wish me luck.

A couple of weeks ago I spotted some cute Wizard of Oz fabric over at Three Kitchen Fairies and fell in love with it. Paloma somehow remembered it, and ask me if I wanted a piece of it. Just like that, can you believe it?! So today I got her package and it’s not only a piece, it’s a half yard!! And not only did she send the fabric, no, there was also the cutest crochet owl ever!

Paloma, you are wonderful and I can’t thank you enough! At the moment I just can stare at the fabric while hugging the owl, so I have no idea what to make with it, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something.

And now I have two favors to ask you. First the baby owl needs a name, don’t you think? So any ideas are welcome. Second, hop over to Paloma’s blog and show her some love. And don’t forget to read her great post about Blogger etiquette and leave a comment with your opinion.

I thought I’d share some of my Flickr finds. I’m totally in love with the mermaid brooches and since I have tons of scraps leftover from the quilt, I’ll probably make some. The orange purse is from a fellow German crafter and I just love the shape and Ikea fabric she used. 

accessories, 2. handbag with black handles, 3. ALMOND SPARROW, 4. pillow!

I would love to make a bag like the sparrow one but I really suck in making pleats and I wonder what kind of interfacing was used here. But I’ll definitely try out the pillow since I’ll have the New Crewel book with the pattern, or maybe I’ll embroider the design on a bag. So many choices so little time.

Sew a fabric bucket - check. And yet another item  I can cross off my Project List. I really fell in love with this little bucket, and I have to hold myself back from sewing another twenty in different sizes. I used some Ikea fabric I originally bought to reupholster my armchair and tried some freehand embroidery around the leaves. At the moment I use every project to practice my freemotion quilting and I have the feeling I’m slowly getting better.  It was a bit tricky to sew on the round bottom, but in the end who cares if it’s a perfect circle or not :)

What else can I say? Go and sew some buckets, they’re really cute. Check here if you want to make one yourself. Or go to my Make something - Storage Boxes post for even more tutorials