Hover at your screen this evening with mouse in hand if you hope to own a Bag for Zaza. My sister-in-law Jennie is putting up some more bags tonight to help bring Zaza home. They rock! Well, and I made some of them… so I’m biased. (Down with homemade bias tape!) www.bagsforzaza.blogspot.com.
Today was officially my first day with NUTHIN to do. So we went to Goodwill… OK, I know that freaks out a few of my family members, but I hit pay dirt, baby. It was $1 for pink tags. I was looking for great fabric to sew bags for Zaza with, and let me just say, I’ll be stitching for a while. I can’t spill all the beans, but I got a 3/4 length brown cashmere coat… for ONE DOLLAR. Even the lining is gorgeous. I came straight home and cut the left arm off. It’s now the bottom of the bag pictured.
And can I just send a thank you to heaven to my grandmother, her mother and my great-great aunties who stitched up a boatload of delicate linens…. for me to chop up and use on these bags. Most of what I’m using was unfinished, and believe you me, I don’t have time to cut the additional 137 2″ hexagons to complete Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt. They are going for a great cause. Please, no emails about me mutilating family heirlooms. Honestly, I’m the only one who cares about vintage family treasures AT ALL. (Can I hear an AMEN, Christy?)
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