Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full.

More good things, John. To pretty for grocery shopping. Juno

I must be spoiled. I have a bunch of them in the back of our cars, and

5 of them hanging on the wall in the kitchen. They do make great gifts, also. They earn you points at our grocery store. We get a kick out of the ladies at the checkout asking my wife ,"Did you make them"? She loves to say, "No, My husband did". it is always good for a strange look or two.

John

John

WOW!!! Wonderful work and such a good idea to use up small scraps.

I looked over your site, that is a stunning blue/green top shown on the first page of your recent projects. I have to make a set of Tai- chi outfits for my wife and myself, and that reminds me of the top with Frog Buttons. I better get busy on them now that I have gotten some inspiration. John

I like them, but just out of curiosity - how much do they hold as compared with regular shopping bags (are they "deep" enough), what do you do if you run into a leaky bag of chicken or something like that (I suspect I know, just kinda want to verify it), and does the quilting act as insulation.

Brian Christiansen

Sometimes, you just gotta use plastic. :) (And there's always the washing machine.)

Most stores around here have thin plastic bags in the meat department, and the bags are intended to be used to keep meat packages from leaking all over the store/cart/other groceries. Unless I'm getting meat direct from the meat counter (where it's wrapped in butcher's paper), I'll put the meat in one of those bags.

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@newsguy.com

I would think that if you kept the chicken/meat in a plastic bag, it would contain the juices. Being as my wife and I are vegetarians, we have never had to face that dilemma. You could make them any height you wanted, but remember the higher they are, the heavier they are, when loaded, and you will have to carry them from the store to the transportation and then home from there. I have a number of them we take to the store. and that way we are not burdened with overweight carrying capacity. They are sized to hold gallon jugs of milk, which is the largest single item we buy, and then can be filled with other things, to fill out the bag. Today we went to the grocery store, and came back with 2 gallons of milk, veggies, 2 quarts of Apple Juice, 8 Yoplait yogurt, a few jars of condiments, and I carried both bags to the car. We park a long way from the store, at the edge of the parking lot, so as to get some exercise and protect the car doors from the dings of careless shopping carts. They were easily carried containing that amount of groceries. As to care: Pop then in the washer and dryer. They are 100% cotton that I have preshrunk, prior to assembly, as is the cotton batting within the quilted sides and bottom and straps. They will clean up like any other cotton item. If you are carrying a gallon of Ink, then all bets are off. John

Thanks, that was a fun project and I have worn the jacket several times.

I wasn't going for authentic Asian style, I just liked that pattern because, while it had some shaping, it didn't have lots of seams breaking up the print. I competed another jacket using the same pattern, in Glen plaid printed silk in shades of ivory and navy blue. Pictures eventually...

Not that it looks Authentic Asian Style. I just noticed the loop construction of the closures, and that is the same style of closure as used on Tai-Chi clothing, but theirs is over lapping, with that style of loop, but with a knotted element in the anchor point, and that is on my honey do list. It was a quiet prod to myself, to get going on my list of things that must be done soon. John

Perhaps this will get you started:

seriously, making the narrow tubing with Claire Shaeffer's method (demonstrated on my site) works wonderfully well. You can produce extremely narrow, very strong tubing.

Yeah, I need one of those prods myself...

Thanks for that link. I tried to find them ready made but that looks easy enough. There are 8 per top and that is a tot of 16. shold be a good days work.

John

You're welcome. Here is another one you might find useful:

much the same ball instructions, with the addition of a frog pattern. My motto is, one can never have too many bookmarked sites. ;-}

Everything he makes is both beautiful and useful.

Another win, John! :)

Hi Kate, and thanks.I haven't posted here for awhile. Back to doing clothing in a serious way, to the detriment of my quilting output. If I could only find a happy balance. How do you do it? I get consumed by a particular thing and follow it to the exclusion of everything else. My wife said I am monomaniacal, but I think I am focused. Then there is the woodworking. Another obsession that takes hold. So many directions, so little time. John

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I haven't done any serious quilting for way too long! HOWEVER, this week I get to combine the quilting with making historical costume, when I make a quilted body lining for a tail coat! :D

I can vouch for that! I hung a 7 layer chiffon dress of chiffon straps made Claire's way! Worked a treat.

I need three... And a stack of those round flat tuits rather than the square and triangular ones I seem to have right now!

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