WIP Friday

I feel like I've been pretty busy this week, yet I've obviously been able to make good use of the little time I've been crafting because I have two projects to show for it!

First up are of couple of purple and red bags. A friend's mom belongs to the Red Hat Society and suggested that if I made some quilted bags in red and purple that she would know lots of ladies who would probably be interested in buying them. I'm actually having a lot of fun designing bags around a color scheme. The ones shown in this picture are going to be two medium-sized totes. I'm also having a brainstorm about some bags I can make out of some satin-y material I have with an appliqued hat on the front. I want it to be nice, but not too kitschy - quite the challenge!

My other WIP is the tilted squares quilt I wrote about in my previous post. Considering how little I've been working this quilt, it's coming along very quickly! I'm so happy to be working with bright colors again (they are my absolute favorites). I'm also having lots of fun designing this quilt myself. It's a baby quilt, but it's going to be funky and modern. I'm trying to figure out how to do the borders right now and in my brain it seems like it should work, but I need to actually figure it out in reality. I did an unbelievable job in estimating the fabric yardages, but I was a little too accurate. I have just the exact right amount in some fabrics that there is absolutely no room for error because I have zero extra fabric. At least the quilt shop is nearby and fully stocked in case of a fabric emergency.