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 Wearing or carrying your patchwork often serves, unintentionally, as an advertisement for your work…and may lead to unimagined opportunities.  This happened to Josephine (Mrs. William) McKinley, as related at From the Scrapbook on Will McKinley’s “previously owned” blog.
Carrying a quilted patchwork pocketbook to a lecture at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library changed the whole course of Mrs. William McKinley’s life.
You’ll enjoy reading the complete story of how this led into a patchwork/quilting life.  I found it such an inspirational story and wanted to share it with you, my readers.
(2008) Mary Emma Allen

It seems more and more patchwork tote bags catch my eye as I look at displays, browse blogs, or check out books.  Are they the quilting fad right now?  Or am I simply more aware.
I mentioned Emily’s tote in a previous post, Create a Patchwork Tote Bag.  Today I came across Chloe’s post, Eco-friendly Fabric Totebags, at Tangled Thread.  For Blog Action Day, Chloe called her readers’ attention to this easy-to-make nine-patch tote bag with a free pattern from JoAnn’s.  (See Chloe’s blog for this at the above link.)
This brought back memories of tote bags I used to make because they were a …read more

Create a patchwork tote bag…..see this lovely version.    Over at Domestik Goddess, I discovered this lovely patchwork tote made by Jen’s teenaged daughter Emily.  She stitched it from odds and ends in her mother’s fabric remnant stash.
For a description of how Emily went about making her tote, visit the Domestik Goddess blog (link above).  Jen also gives information about a tutorial for a tote bag.
When I had my quilting business, I often made tote bags for customers and pictured them in my brochure.  My daughter made some fun ones for me, her daughter and herself from denium.  They can be …read more