Put a dent in it

I worked hard for four days. I finished that group of 42 tote bags. Yes, we have some fancy tote bags for the merch booth!

Here is the bin packed with the 72 tote bags I made last week ready to take to the show on Friday.

I was sorting thru all the stuff that has accumulated on one of the guest beds. I found some potholders I had started years ago so it was time to get them done.

The binding on the back doesn't look the greatest, but they are just potholders.

I only had one very sad potholder that I have been using for probably 40 years so anything is better than this!  Yes, I pitched it!

Friday I headed to the venue at 2:30 in the next town over to help with the merch booth at Michael's show. It did rain a bit around 7 P.M.

It rained for about 10 minutes and then the rest of the evening was beautiful. The kids put on a great show and I was busy selling lots of t-shirts.  I didn't get to bed until about 1 A.M.

Remember I posted this fabric that I washed and this bin of fabric that needed washed? All of this was in my friend's garage that the cats walked all over it. This was African Dutch Wax and my hand dyed fabrics she had taken to sell. This is what was left and it ended up just sitting.

Over the four days, I got batches of the fabric by color washed and pressed. I also cut strips out of the African Dutch Wax and the yellow/greenish hand dyed that I am going to make into small quilts. I didn't count how much of the Dutch Wax and yellow/green FQs there was before I started cutting, but in the pile of FQs there is around 32 yards of fabric. I would guess I washed and ironed around 40 yards.

While I waited for the fabric to wash and dry, I got out the fabric for more tote bags. I had a heck of a pile/mess on the guest bed and that needed to be turned into tote bags. Over the four days I cut out 92 tote bags. Let's just say the mess had been tamed! We have been going thru a lot of bags and we have a six big shows in August so we will be needing more bags.

If that wasn't enough, I opened the box of t-shirts that needs to be made into a quilt by October. I got these interfaced and loosely arranged

I have these pieces ready to be turned into improv piano key borders to make the quilt wider. 

I have basketball jersey that needs some fabric added on to it so I can include it in this top and there is another shirt that needs interfaced, but I got the majority of the preliminary work done. Mowing and trimming the front and one side, laundry, and going to the grocery store rounded out the four days. Tomorrow I will show the projects my brother and SIL passed on to me at the show. Not huge projects, but I get a couple projects done and more come my way! LOL!!