Tutorial and a Giveaway!!!

Well hello cute people!

I want to show you what I sewed a while back...

bags...

and lots of them!

In fact...

I went on quite the bag sewing frenzy.

It all started with my 

fabulous friend Monica 

and Pinterest.

Let me explain.

Monica sent me a picture of a bag

 that she had pinned.

The bag was made by 

Erin at Why Not Sew  

and was adorable!!!

I smiled when I saw that Erin

 had used my Sew Cherry fabric. 

The pattern she used came from 

a tutorial by my friend Ayumi.

Monica wanted to make one and I did too...

so long story short...

she had the great idea to

 sew our bags together!

I said...Heck Yeah!!!

The bag takes 5 fat quarters 

and we decided that I would send her

 5 Sew Cherry FQ's and she would send me

 5 of her HMYY fat quarters....

so that we could make bags out of 

each others fabric! 

Here's the bag I made from

 my Sew Cherry fabric line.

It was so fun and easy to make...

Ayumi has the best tutorials!

I love how the bag gathers at the top.

Here is a view of the inside...

just waiting to be filled with

 all kinds of good stuff.

Here's the one I made out of the

 adorable HMYY fat quarter's

 that Monica sent me.

Isn't her fabric so happy and awesome???

Inside peek.

But the fun didn't stop at just 2 bags...

we also decided that we needed 

to make one out of DS fabrics...

here is my version.

Inside the DS bag.

Of course you know that I

 couldn't stop there...

I just had to make one from my

 Daisy Cottage line...

Inside Daisy Cottage bag.

Then to top it all off...

we really wanted to make a sweet bag 

out of our 

sweet friend Pam's 

sweet fabric.

Su-weeet!!!

Inside my PKM bag.

I had to cap my lunch bag sewing frenzy

 at 5 for right now so that I 

could move on to sewing samples for spring market with

 Millie's Closet.

But I'm sure I will be making

 more in the future!

Click here 

to go straight to Ayumi's great tutorial 

if you want to make one of your own...

but I bet you won't stop at one either!

And to get you started...

I'm giving away 5 of the very same FQ's 

that I used

 to make my own

  Sew Cherry bag...

Along with one of my favorite candy...

the classic Big Cherry.

I'm also throwing in a pack of

 Doublemint Gum because

 Monica dubbed us the

 "doublemint twins" as we were 

sewing our bags together and 

sending pictures back and forth...

Monica lives a few states away from me

 so we had a

 "virtual sew along"

It was sew fun and I'm sure 

I will be doing more virtual sewing

 with friends again!

Just leave me a comment on this post and you are entered in my giveaway...

I will draw a name this Monday at 

midnight my time and 

announce the winner on Tuesday...

But that's not all!...

Because Monica and I are 

the doublemint twins...

she has posted about our

 double sew along too...

and she is also hosting a 

giveaway as well on her cute blog!

Click on over

 and see my friend Monica

 and the bags that she made. 

Leave her some bloggy love and 

enter to win her giveaway as well!

Have a quilty kind of day my friends:)

xx

Lori