It’s not often I have a Saturday to myself. And never is it free to do whatever I want. When I found myself in a scenario of free Saturday + to study or not to study, I opted out of studying and hit up my sewing machine. The guilt was present, but completely overshadowed by joy. It’s been a long time since I’ve sewed “just for fun.” It felt really great.
Carmen has been in need of a new “home-made” school bag. Incorporating her name was on the agenda, but how? Also, what theme? Last summer, I made a messenger bag for a dear friend’s daughter with the iheart bots in pink fabric. It’s just so dang cute, but in an original sort of way. No little cute animals, hearts, or that dang Hello Kitty! Carmen was extremely envious. Not in a spoiled kind of way, but it was evident she would love to have a bag reminiscent of the bots. Keeping that in mind and wanting to incorporate her name brought about one more piece of bot inspiration from Elizabeth Hartman’s space invader quilt. I made a version of that quilt and really loved the process. I thought using the concept of solid prints with bots here and there would be a modern and stylish way of constructing her name. That’s really all I intended to do, but the process was so fun so I kept going.
Various purple-pink solids on dark denim. I do love me some demin!
The addition of bot hour-glass blocks makes it a bit more sophisticated. Maybe?
Can you see the tangerine poke a dots peeking out of the front pockets? Well, I’ve completed the interior bag in the same fabric. Now to put it all together. Not that I have extra time for that, but it may warrant a late night. These kinds of things are too easy to lose sleep over. Once I’m invested, it’s hard to stop!
Happy WiP Wednesday…it has been a while!
♥ Robin
