Humbags

What is it about having a list of things that you should be doing

that makes you want to do things that you shouldn't be doing?

I seem to have that problem...

I was supposed to be putting finishing touches on Christmas gifts,

cleaning house and doing some laundry.

Instead I picked up a few pieces of fabric that I had worked on a couple of months ago

with the Fiber Freaks.

Deconstructive screen printing fabric.

Yummy.

I saw a video of Laura Kemshall (Design Matters TV) making

a "humbug purse" from quilted scraps.

(I call it a "humbag")

The colors of her bag reminded me of the screen prints that I had done.

Bingo...

That's all it took.

I rummaged around in the room that used to be my studio

(that is presently taped off due to some type of implosion)

and found the smallest of the prints.

I made up some quick quilt sandwiches and

zipped through some (messy) free motion quilting.

Did a little fabric painting in a couple of places and

viola!

Look at this wonky cool bag!

I even put a zipper in it.

And I hate putting in zippers...

But, that wasn't all!

I couldn't stop (as usual!) myself.

I had to make another deconstructive screen printed, quilted, fabric painted pen case.

This one is a little more conventional than the triangle one...

You can barely see the marks from the screen printing

so I added larger quilted images.

I used Lumiere fabric paint (copper) and Stewart Gill "Alchemy" (celestial).

I have never used the Stewart Gill interference paint before

and I LOVE it!

The color I used is so bold. 

It does not change the hand of the fabric like some of the fabric paints I've used

and is really easy to use.

Yeah, did you see that I put a zipper in that case too!?

A record for me I'm sure.

Two zippers...

two days...

Several chores ignored...(not a record).