New job

I started my new job today!   I am working for Pink Chalk Fabrics....an online fabric store.   Check out the web site to see all the gorgeous fabrics I get to cut up!   :)    Kathy Mack is the owner and she also has a nice blog that you want to be sure to visit cuz she gives away fat quarter packs every Tuesday!  There are only a few employees and no customers so it was quiet, much different than a "brick & mortar" quilt store.  I enjoyed processing orders and imaging what the buyer was gonna make with the fabrics! 
 I didn't want to spend my first day taking pictures....wanted to make a good impression.....hee, hee.  But maybe next week I'll bring in my camera and get a few to show you the company.

Just for Laughs

Gathered Clutch

I sewed this clutch yesterday at Yaya day.   Directions are at this blog and looked really good and thorough. There were lots of pictures so I felt safe in trying it.   Unfortunately sewing experience is assumed in the tutorial.  Some times the pictures didn't match the text and I didn't know which to follow and some times the directions didn't make sense.  Thanks to my uber experienced Yaya Melissa!   She knew exactly what the gal wanted and I was able to make the clutch....which is so cute.   Now that I've made one, I feel confident in making more....which I'm definitely gonna do!   :)

Fun with Glass

I took a glass class a little while ago with some other gals.  We went to Calypso Glass Studio in Bremerton for a few hours of fun.  This was a first for me...I've never worked with glass before.   After spending a little time on learning to score and cut the glass we were set free to create.   I created like a quilter!  Hee, hee.   I had my scraps of glass just like my scraps of fabric....cut and designed till I had some thing I liked.   We left our creations to be fused in the kiln and picked up later.

Practicing; Bins of scraps in the colors I was using; Fellow creators

Final creation.

My finished plate after fusing....too many bubbles means I didn't clean & dry well enough, I think.  Boo hoo.  My son likes the bubbles, though.  Maybe he should get this for Christmas?   :)