Meadow Mist Designs: gifts

Friday, November 25, 2016

Drawstring Bags and Pincushions

In my local modern quilt guide, the Greenville Modern Quilt Guide, we recently held elections and voted in a new president. I was the president for the last two years and was the vice-president for two years before that. We are a new guide so we did not have much money to bring in speakers and therefore relied on our own members for our content.

I am in awe of the talent that we have in our group and so grateful for them to have shared their talents and their time for our guide. I made each member that contributed to the group that held a chair position and/or presented a presentation, tutorial, or workshop.

I shared four mini quilts that I gifted last week and today I would like share some drawstring bags and pincushions I made for some members.

For the drawstring bags, I used Jeni Baker from In Color Order's Lined Drawstring Bag Tutorial and customized each bag for the recipient.

Drawstring Bag 1 - For our incoming president who taught a quilting workshop and presented a trunk show (and who I know loves this blue print by Rifle & Co. for Cotton & Steel).

Drawstring Bag 2 - For our treasurer who also organized and hosted the guild challenge, a Cotton & Steel version. The yellow fabric is a Japanese print that is all about handwriting to go along with the theme of her guild challenge piece.

Drawstring Bag 3 - For one of our board members who lead the creation of the by-laws and co-organized our one year anniversary pattern, a Kaffe Fassett bag.

All of the bags together.

I also made 4 pincushions for other members who have contributed to the guild. Since I stopped selling pincushions in my Etsy shop I have actually missed making them so these were fun to sew up.