I’ve made my first ever lanyard!  Very straight forward.  I used fabric from one of the new “modern” fabric lines and it’s different from any others I’ve seen.  I’ve decided my next few are going to be made out of batiks – very graphic prints and beautiful saturated color.  I’ve bought a few clasps that have smaller bar widths and one is a brown/bronze color which will be excellent with one of the batiks I have picked out.  I’ll post pictures as soon as they’re done and, in the meantime, here is the one I just finished . . .   (isn’t that a neat clasp?!!)

In the spirit of leaving the television OFF and committing a bit of time each night toward creating something, I sat down last night and stitched up a new kitchen towel for my kitchen – even included a loop for hanging.  Target has started carrying a very nice towel for this kind of project and I’m hoping they expand into more colors.  For now, though, red will have to do . . .

If we have more snow days in January like this one, I should find even more time to sew!!

Peace and creativity to all!