Spectacular Slow Stitching

Often the scraps and leftovers from a quilt become the seeds for beautiful projects unto themselves. Such is the case with these gorgeous little Kantha bags that Jane is stitching.

Using scrappy strips from her Untraditional Log Cabin which was finished earlier this year, she sewed panels that are roughly 6 - 7" square and then spent time leisurely hand stitching them with a variety of coloured embroidery flosses. Even before they are made into any thing they are gorgeous and the texture when you run your hand across them is just wonderful.

We spent a day together earlier this week, so while I worked on bindings she started making them into little lined bags.

Each one is as spectacular as the next and she had lots of fun picking coordinating linings and zippers. Like with the quilt, the riot of rich colours pulls you right in.

In the end there were two sizes; the larger one is about six inches square and a smaller one that is more of a change purse size. There's still tassels needed to be added to the zippers to finish them up, but even without the tassel they are mini works of art. LUV!....M