Friday, January 23, 2009

A Finish

large carry all tote with wooden dowel handles made with ugly fabric for our guild challenge
side view of tote to show how room it is
With a week to spare, I have a finish for 2009! This carry all tote was made with a yard of tulip fabric I received at the September, 2008, guild meeting. It was concealed in a paper bag for The Ugly Fabric Challenge. I quilted the tulip fabric to a lining of red with white hearts like the outside pockets. I add the checked fabric because the tulip fabric wasn't large enough for my pattern. It is huge and will hold a ton of supplies or carry quite a few quilts. We were photographed with our "ugly" fabric and those pics were shown on a screen at this past Wednesday's meeting while we held our finished projects and told what we made. It was a lot of fun and there were quite of few participants. Our webmaster, Judy, should have pictures of the event on our website in a few days.

Addition: I have an incorrect link for this giveaway and can't remember where I saw it. Sorry... Anyone know a Corinne who is hosting a giveaway?
There's still time to enter this giveaway from Corinne.

13 comments:

Jan said...

Your bag is beautiful and to think it was made with an "ugly" fat quarter!! Good job!

Cathi said...

What a great bag!!

Lilly said...

What a great idea! I know you will use that great bag often. Beautiful and useful. How nice!

Unknown said...

Amazing what Ugly fabric can be turned into...Great Bag...
cheers

Kim said...

Very cute challenge tote.
One of the yahoo groups I used to belong to did them. We got some doozy of fabric too.
Your link to the giveaway brings us to your guild's website.

Gina said...

great bag and what a good use of 'ugly' fabric

love and hugs Gina xxx

sewkalico said...

The bag looks great! Love the size of it and the fact that your 'ugly' fabric no longer looks ugly!!

May Britt said...

Ugly fabric challenge. Well...for some the fabric can be ugly but for others it can be beautiful. I think it looks great.

Elsie Montgomery said...

Nice job! Everyone needs a big tote like that one. As for the fabric being ugly, mmmm... I could easily play "can you top this"

Greenmare said...

this is CUTE! and I love the "ugly" fabric!!!

Pam said...

The hand out the door ~ cracking me up, certainly a way to keep from becoming part of the picture!

Terrific bag! and yes, it does appear like it will hold plenty. Those "ugly" challenges always have the best completed projects!

Pam@
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Disaster Diva Debbie said...

CUTE! I love the anonymous hand coming from behind the door...

Unknown said...

The bag is great.

p.s. you haven´t been in my bloglines with new post for a long time!!!