Bagmania continues

I worked on tote bags most of the weekend. I now have 51 finished and pressed.

There are a bunch more handles sewn and ready for adding to the bags

Handles pressed and ready to be stitched

Handles that need pressed and sewn. Lots of handles are needed! I have forty-nine more bags to sew together. That is more bags than I thought I had cut out so that equals 200 handles I need.

I did spend some time on Saturday sorting out my cross stitch fabric and kitting up some future projects. I did get the I Collect piece finished and this morning I got the buttons sewn on. These buttons are from my grandmother, mother, my stash, and from some buttons that were from a tailor whose wife had a cross stitch shop in the basement of their home. I just need to sew on a back and stuff this and it will be done. I did run out of the color I used for filling in the mason jar, so I went into the floss boxes and found a bobbin of the same color from all that floss I had bought. See it came in handy already!  I do keep all the buttons in old blue Mason jars with the zinc lids.  

I made a batch of chili, did some laundry, dishes, mowed the front yard and did some trimming. I kept a lookout for the pregnant doe and she is still hanging out in the woods behind my house. I saw her this morning and she hasn't had the fawn yet.