Fresh New Look Of My Tote Bag
A “Daisy Tote”!!!!It is still not enough to be a diaper bag. What about the diapers and wet tissue? I want them to be in a proper place so that I can access them easily. Again, another strip of elastic band across the bag. I put a magnet button instead of dead stitching it for the elastic to hold the diaper and wet tissue independantly. In future, I can choose to accommodate wider things like books and don’t have to take the stitches out. Flexible and adaptable to whatever occasion huh~
This is how the internal looks like in flat before I sew them into the tote. Upper is my diaper bag arrangement and it can transform to other bag (bottom) one day when my baby grows up. I believe this tote can last for years 
As usual, I put my beautiful lable on the zipped pocket – “Handmade by Craftpassion” 
I brought it out this morning for my 6 month-old’s vaccination jabs and got these reactions from the clinic assistants. Their eyes stared at my daisy tote the moment I walked in and their eyes were watching the tote where ever I walked. Before I left, one of the clinic assistants finally articulated her desire and asked me where I bought this tote and it is so beautiful…. haa haa haa I was so happy and felt like floating up to the sky and replied “Oh thanks, it is the only one in the world and it was made by me”. Their eyes turned so big like they don’t believe it and seconds later they asked if I am going to make another one and sell to them, I just gave them a smile and replied politely ” I am afraid not! This is specially for my baby”…. oh the gratification is undescribable!!!! Wonders of HANDMADE, no two pieces of works are identical and the admiration spurs me on to create more!
As I work on it, the internal lining get more and more elaborate. I want it to be my new born baby’s daiper bag, the internal lining must look soft and comfortable, so I did some diagonal quilt sewings onto it with a piece of poly-fluffy….
My New Plan On An Old Tote Bag
March 27, 2009 | Random
Lights-Off And See Your World In A Whole New Light
I am going to do this for the sake of saving our Mother Earth. Please come and participate and your support is highly appreciated. It is time to help heal the Earth that we humans have been causing so much harm to for so long. Here’s to a better future for our children!!!
Tatting Lace
March 21, 2009 | Other Craft
Have you ever been confronted with a limited choice of patterns when choosing lace from the shop? I do, and my sister does too. This is why she started learning and doing her own tatting lace. How about me? Why I didn’t do it myself? I wish I could do it now… ah… too many new crafts to try out with so little time I have. I hope to do it one day and share with you my joys and sorrows throughout the process.
We love tatting lace, unlike those mass production machined laces, tatting laces are made from very fine cotton threads which are softly lustrous to give them a very refined appearance. Those photos shown above are the tatting laces my sister did by following the books. Her works are so fine that I couldn’t find any flaws in them. It is not easy to tat from a series of knots and loops by using the tatting shuttles, the tension must be right in order to make a nice lace. One single mistake in the process, that’s it, no way to correct it but to redo it again from the start.Share with me if you have any tatting experience!!!!
Gift From A Fellow Craft Blogger – I Can’t Wait!!!
March 16, 2009 | Random
Oh, I am so happy to receive an offer from LollyChops, a talented crafter I have been inspired by ever since I found her blog a month ago. I enjoy following her blog as she never fails to surprise me with many many great ideas. You should go to her blog to see her amazing work, especially this, this and this. She is very generous to share her tutorials, and even gives free downloads on her paper patterns. Her craft room is amazing! It is so neat and big, you’ll have to see it for yourself, trust me, you will be drooling!
Back to the offer - She is giving me a fat quarters (size of 18 x 22 inch) of pear fabric. This is the last piece of fabric from her January Giveaway. She would like me to make a pear-shaped frame clutch purse, something like my Fish frame clutch purse but without the tail and lip. Doesn’t she have a great eye to spot that! Yeah, my fishy purse body is pear-shaped but a chubby one, ha ha ha!!! The condition is that she just wants the photos, I get to keep the purse.
I am so excited and can’t wait for the fabric to arrive and start working on it. I think it is gonna be a great purse!
Turtle Pincushion – Greeny & Pinky
March 14, 2009 | Free Pattern, Highlight, Sewing
Did you get it right? [click here to see the question]. Yup, the hexagon quilt is for the back of my little turtle pincushion. Let me introduce ***drum roll***** WELCOME, Ms.Pinky and Mr. Greeny!!!
I created Greeny as an experiment, if you go back to my hexagon quilt tutorial post, you will see Greeny is hiding in the background as I photographed the steps. From idea, to paper, to sewing and finally the birth of my turtle pincushion, I created my first sea creature. The project went on smoothly and I never thought that I can be successful in the very first trial. Lucky me, I think! ….
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