At long last...

At long last here's an update of the recently completed crafty projects...

 First up is the bag I made for my 21 year old niece. Her bag for her study books is starting to wear through , so I sneakily took it's measurements when I did a repair job on it and used them to make her a new bag. Complete with a lining and an inner pocket which is even sub-divided to take a pen and it has a loop with a carabiner to attach car keys.

And...it is personalised with her name on the front and a little red cross as she is studying nursing. I only sewed the name panel on loosely in three places so that it can be removed without too much trouble if my niece doesn't fancy having her name for all to see :)

Then (a project which was mentioned ages ago in my blog) I finally finished the long awaited baby blankie for my nephew.

It is so soft and snugly that I want to keep it for myself.

It was quite a challenge for me, never having worked with binding and silky/satiny binding in particular...so apart from it being a bit wonky, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

It has a quilted patch on the front. It's a pity the print didn't have frogies instead of turtles as that would have made it perfect... "Frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails, that's what little boys are made of".

And that's the back :)

Anyway now it has been washed and dried and packed into my suitcase as we are off on holiday to go visit our family back home....Yippeeeeee!