Ready...set...go! This post marks the beginning of my very own blog!
Hello...my name is Amy.
While I was guest-blogging I took the plunge and opened up my very own shop on Etsy, called "eamylove".
A while ago I saw a camera bag here, made by Serendipity Studio, in a pattern from the book Media Frenzy. WOW! I had to make one...it was just so beautiful, and would be perfect for my sister, who loves to take pictures.
We both love Fig Tree Quilts fabrics, so I chose some of my favorites for this project...from Mill House Inn, Fig and Plum, and, I think, some Buttercup.
Never mind that I worried constantly about breaking needles or running out of bobbin thread halfway around the endless topstitching details.
Never mind the sloppy interior of the lid.
{That's kind of how I feel today, too, beginning this blog!}
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Hello...my name is Amy.
I have been a guest blogger on a blog called LanieJane, which is no longer active. I learned so much, and in JoAnne I "met" a wonderful new friend and mentor. She gave me the chance to write about my favorite things...sewing, fabrics and recipes. And she even gave me a bunch of fabric! What fun!
I joined the local branch of the Modern Quilt Guild and met a talented quilter and blogger named Jessica, who turned out to be my neighbor!!! She let me do a guest post for her blog, SewCraftyJess.
All of this has led me here to my own place on the internet. I've been thinking about what to call my blog, and I decided on the name "Amy Made That!" because that's the reaction I'm hoping to see whenever I show someone what I've created.
I kind of hope my bags and pillows and quilts and baby toys, and whatever else I've made don't look really homemade, unless it's on purpose. ;)
I love it when someone shows my newest thing to someone else, and feels the need to explain, "Amy made that!"
A while ago I saw a camera bag here, made by Serendipity Studio, in a pattern from the book Media Frenzy. WOW! I had to make one...it was just so beautiful, and would be perfect for my sister, who loves to take pictures.
We both love Fig Tree Quilts fabrics, so I chose some of my favorites for this project...from Mill House Inn, Fig and Plum, and, I think, some Buttercup.
My mom has seen just about everything I've ever made, so she knows my style. Last month I showed her this camera bag I had made as a birthday present for my sister.
Mom looked at it and asked me, "Did you MAKE this?"
Why, yes, as a matter of fact I did. Never mind that I decided about 20% into it that it was a "one of a kind" camera bag, not the first in a series of four.
Never mind that I worried constantly about breaking needles or running out of bobbin thread halfway around the endless topstitching details.
Never mind the sloppy interior of the lid.
{oddly enough, there is no photo available}
Never mind that I didn't make the interior padded shelves,
as directed in the pattern.
Never mind that I didn't make the interior padded shelves,
as directed in the pattern.
Never mind that the little pocket flap will NOT stay down.
I knew my sister would love it,
and I knew she and my mom were proud of what I had MADE!
And I felt as if I'd "made it" somewhere new in my sewing life.
and I knew she and my mom were proud of what I had MADE!
And I felt as if I'd "made it" somewhere new in my sewing life.
{That's kind of how I feel today, too, beginning this blog!}
I hope you'll enjoy seeing what else I'm making. I get all my best ideas from beautiful blogs, and I hope you'll find some inspiration here to MAKE something, too!
