Friendship Bag Swap

I received my Friendship Bag Swap package a few days ago. I came home from work and it was in my mailbox! What a great ending to a tiresome day at work!!
My secret swap partner was Dorothy (aka Dot) from Illinois.
Check out her blog - http://pawsforstitching.blogspot.com/




The envelope was bursting at the seams with fun cool stuff! The bag, of course is totally awesome. I love the great Halloween fabrics Dot chose. I have some of them in my own stash!



There is an adorable pair of Halloween socks and a packet of Orange flavored hot chocolate mix... sounds yummy, huh?? Wish it was calorie free! :-(



Also in the package was a cute notepad with a little pencil, just perfect for my purse!!



But my favorite thing in the package was this cute little sand -filled pin cushion! So great! It does make me smile...no GRIN, every time I see it, Dot!! Thank you so much, Dot, for being my swap partner!

Friendship Bag Swap

I finished my friendship swap bag and it is winging it's way to my secret swap partner. I hope she likes it! She said she likes polka dots and so I put some in! I love these bright happy plaids in hot summery colors.




I love the variegated thread I used to quilt it! It was in shades of purple, lime green, orange and pink.

I free-motioned loopy flowers in the pink squares and leaves in the green squares.

I sewed little green buttons in the centers of the flowers.




I did a rounded edged zig-zag stitch to quilt the purple polka dotted bands and handles.



I filled the bag with some pretty fat quarters and rickrack. She should get it soon!

Sew, what's next ?? I want to use some fall flannel in my stash to make a shaggy quilt! TTFN! :-)