Girly Girls

I need to write a bag tutorial, but I'm still fine tuning my technique, so I don't feel comfortable posting one yet.  I'm going to make trick or treat bags for the kids for this year.  I've had the cloth for two years, its about time I did it.  Last night I whipped up this darling little number for a girl that was described to me many times as a girly girl.  I approached the making the bag much differently than I have in the past and was very pleased with the results:

Finished Quilt

I finally finished Abby's quilt a couple of months ago.  A few weeks ago, I got her pillows done.  Here's a picture of the final product:

I think it turned out very well.  I wanted to do bugs and butterflies and all sorts of fun things that the girls like, but after I got the flowers done, I realized that all of that stuff was really just going to make the quilt overwhelming.  I love the stripes
The hardest part of this quilt really surprised me, and that was that the lovely pink cloth that I picked was quickly discontinued by JoAnn's.  I searched high and low for even something that was the same shade of pink, but never found anything that really worked.  Next time I do a design project, I'm buying twice as much of the main cloth than I estimate I will need.  I'm still frustrated about the whole thing.
Now that I've been through it once, I think Lucy's quilt will go much faster.  I almost have all of the flowers on the middle section.  I'm planning to use Lucy's to do a series of tutorials about quilting.  I am by no means an expert, but I like to share how I do things and what I have learned.