Oh, I love it ......... I can't wait til I can sit down and have a good read. I've flicked through the beautiful pages, but so far that's all I've had a chance to do. Maybe that's just as well, just looking at the cover I can see there are soooo many beautiful items I'd love to make ... good thing I joined up with this challenge LOL. I fell in love with Tone Finnangers designs when Laila, (my stitcher's Angel in Helens Swap) sent me a couple of her gorgeous stitcheries - which I have now stitched :o) .......... (thanks Laila :o)!!!). I'm still not sure what I will make with them yet.
I've also been working on a BOM that my friend Valerie (no blog) and I bought a few years ago. She was living in Kuala Lumpur at the time so we decided to make it together when she came home. Well, she's been home a while and we still haven't finished it!!! It's definitely on my WISPs list to finish for the challenge!!!! Here's one of the blocks that I'm in the middle of quilting......
We're going to put it together "quilt-as-you-go" as it's a rather large quilt with loads of applique', yo-yos, a few beads etc and I think it will be easier that way. I'll keep you posted on the progress ;o).Take care ......
Hugs,
Joy :o)
Happy Birthday darling girl ..... love you to bits :o)!!!!
I love it .... but this is the other side ...... he he, perfect for when you want to be alone!!!
Do you love his "scary" face???? LOL, he looks tough doesn't he!!?!!?! Nah, I didn't think so either ;o). So we did a little browsing, and a little shopping ... and this is what we drove through to find our "perfect picnic spot" ......
You can't really tell by the piccy cos the wipers were on but it was absolutely tipping down!! So here's where we ended up having our picnic ......Not quite what we had in mind.....
but hey ... it was warm and dry :o).....
..... cute picnic basket doncha think?? It reminds me of Yogi Bear and Boo Boo - maybe we should call it our 'pickanick basket' instead LOL. 
I'm off to put the kettle on now ... I baked this cake this afternoon and I can hear it beckoning to me ....... yummmmm .... Lemon Fudge cake :o)
Hope your weekend was a good one ...
Sew the 5 strips for the bag outer together and press all the seams in the same direction.
Do the same with the shorter strips for the sides of the bag. Press.
Iron the pellon to the back of the bag outer then lay this piece onto the wrong side of the lining piece and pin the layers ready for quilting.
Do the same with the smaller side pieces.
Using a walking foot, quilt all three pieces "in the ditch".
Press the binding strip in half lengthways, wrong sides together.
Cut 2 pieces from this strip 3" long and sew to the front of the side pieces, raw edges together.
Flip the folded edge over to the back of the piece and hand-stitch the binding down with a blind stitch. Match your thread to the binding. Do this with both side pieces.
Mark the centre of the long side of the main bag piece with a pin. Match the centre of the side piece and pin in place.
Pin the side pieces to the bag outer so that the sides are now set in. You will notice the sides pieces are slightly shorter than the bag outer. That is correct.
Pin the binding in place, raw edges together on the sides of the bag and sew in place.
Mitre the corners as you sew on the binding.
Flip the folded edge of the binding over the raw edges and hand stitch it down.
Your bag should look pretty much like this by now .... next we'll put in the zipper ... don't worry it's easy, not scary at all :o)!!!
Change your sewing machine foot to a zipper foot.Open the zipper. Pin 2 of the remaining strips to the zipper as shown above,
sew them on with a 1/4" seam allowance.
Fold the strips back and press. Sew the strips to the other side of the zip in the same way and press. Close the zipper.
Pin the zipper piece to the top of the bag, raw edges together. You will have about 1" overhang at each end. 
Trim the bottom end of the zipper so that you have a nice straight edge to sew the binding onto.
Sew the binding on, raw edges together, as shown in the pic above. Mitre the corners as you go around the bottom of the zipper.
Sew it around both sides and the bottom end of the zipper, leave the top end of the zipper open. Flip the folded edge over the raw edges and stitch the binding down using a blind stitch.
Cut a 6 1/2" strip from the leftover binding and fold the top edge over 
then fold this piece in half, right sides together and sew along the one side and across the top. Trim off the top 2 corner pieces, turn inside out and press. 
Undo the zipper a little bit and slip the little sleeve over the open ends of the zipper. Pin in place and stitch on. 
Your little toiletries bag is now complete!!!!
