A while back, I spotted a fun
paper pieced fish pattern @ Craftsy and had to have it. It's free! I made the fishy block, then dug through my black and white scrap bin to make this very simple tote. I added an eye bead instead of paper piecing the tiny little iris that's in the pattern - easier and less fiddly, plus - who doesn't like using eye beads, amiright? ;)
These pencil cases were made using the last of a collection of scraps I had been given years ago. The two on the left were pieced onto used
colour catcher sheets, an item that's rarer than hen's teeth here in Canada. Where it IS available, it's priced similarly to the price of gold ... GRRRR! However, it's widely and inexpensively available south of the border, and luckily I get to go south of the border regularly, thanks to my long-suffering husband, LOL. I buy them for my friend Nancy as well, and she kindly gives me her used ones to upcycle :D It's a thing we do, Miss Nancy and I! :D
A couple of those bags have beads on them, for fun and bling ;)
More bead bling ;)
While I had my b&w scrap bin out for the fishy tote, I whipped up a few more b&w bags for the donation box. Another simple tote ...
... a
Bella clutch, and 2
earbud pouches :D I think I made a few more bags but they got gifted before I could get pictures :D
This last bag is actually my favourite of all of these bags - it's not fancy, it's not big, it's not made with lovely quilt store fabric. I just used scraps from my blue scrap bin, and made a regular zippy. I stitched the scraps onto a base I had patchworked from batting scraps, then I cross-hatch quilted the outer pieces with blue variegated thread. I added some buttons from my button collection, and called it a day. I think scraps are the jewels of the fabric world, and this type of pouch, made with what are basically, throwaway supplies, gives me The Happy Feels :D Plus - it's cute! ;)