ModSew:: Florida Wildflowers bag


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I have to say that bags are so much fun to make. I think they are one of those things I can make and not think a lot about what I am doing. I like those kinds of sewing projects. Bags are also an awesome thing to give someone else because they are super useful and oh so cute.

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My oldest has a friend that I just adore. I actually helped them to be friends in a way. The little girl has a difficulty with speech so she is really shy around others and I remember asking my oldest if she played with her. She said no mom she won’t talk to me. That led to a great conversation about how she is shy and it wasn’t that she didn’t like her but that she was probably scared she wouldn’t be nice to her. My oldest is my old soul, she immediately got what I was saying and they ended up becoming friends. They are now in a kindergarten class together and are the best of friends.

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There is one more part to this story though… I loved the little girl’s mom so so much. She was always so nice to me and so real. She wasn’t too over the top into things but just a normal mom like me. She had rules and her kids knew that but she was so gentle. I told my husband I really wanted my girls to have real friends and friends whose parents I could trust. She was one I could trust. I knew we were on the same parenting field. This year as the girls have gone through kindergarten I have gotten a lot closer to her. She has opened up to me and I to her… we have discovered we have so much in common. I adore her and her family.

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She had a birthday party for her daughter this year at their farm and for the sack race she had these awesome burlap bags for the kids to race in. People I about died… look at how awesome they are. Their family grows wildflowers for this cooperative and these are the bags they have for the seeds. I kindly asked, okay maybe swooned and begged some, to take some home. I took two home that day. I made one for Carolyn Friedlander and then I made one for her. I mean I kinda took them so I had to make her one!! lol

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I made this huge block a really long time ago with some repro-ish fabrics and I knew it would be perfect. I wanted fabrics that had flowers because this was a wildflower bag and it needed flowers! I really loved how the block turned out. It was really big and vintage looking and just what I had wanted.

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I didn’t want to cut the logo up on the burlap bag part so I ended up making a fairly big bag but I knew as a momma of three she would love a big bag. I framed the burlap in a yellow flower fabric that was so sunshine state to me. We love yellow in the sunshine state.

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I saw her one day at school and gave it to her. She was so happy and surprised. She didn’t know that is what I was going to do with the bags I took that day. She said she had needed a bag for her laptop and this was perfect. I had quilted the bag a little and had batting in between the layers so it would have some padding. It was a great computer bag because of the batting giving it some cushion.

So now I have an order to make some for her for Mother’s Day which I think is the perfect idea. I really love those burlap seed bags and can’t wait to make more things with them. It is nice to have friends that do such cool things.

And it is so awesome to have friends that have children I love so much and are like a momma to my own children. That is priceless.