While I am still waiting to show you a bag I completed a while ago as a tester for Janelle at Emmaline Bags, and while I am currently testing another bag from a designer that is new to me, I thought I would show you another Buttercup Evening Bag that I just completed.
I make these evening bags from fabric swatches that are dressier. It allows me to use beautiful, expensive fabric but still keep the costs down. Here are others that I have posted about. I make them from the Buttercup pattern by Made by Rae. I made another black one because they are the ones that are the most popular with my customers.
I also had to take a picture of it in front of my beautiful orchid that was given to me by a dear friend.
When she gave me this orchid there were no blooms yet but several pods. It has gone on to have 8 blooms with one more (the last one) getting ready to bloom. That will be nine in all. I am so happy because when she gave it to me, I was afraid that I would not be able to keep it alive long enough to see any of the flowers. I really have no green thumb. I have sent her several photos of the orchid as more blooms arrived because I just knew it would not live long enough for all of the blooms to open. But only one left...hope I haven't jinxed myself!!!!
It reminds me of a story from when I was first married. My new mother-in-law gave me a beautiful African Violet that she had broken off from another one she had. She had grown it until it, too, was blooming and well established. Within a few weeks of giving it to me, the plant "didn't look well". That is what she said but I will be honest with you... it was dying. I felt horrible that I was killing her gift to me. It was such pressure. She took it back to see if she could revive it. Well, within 4-6 weeks, it had grown so large that she split it into two plants. She tried to give one back to me but she understood when I told her that I would just visit it at her house! I just better stick to sewing!
Very elegant; both the bag and orchid! You might not have a green thumb but you do have a classy touch in all your bags!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Norma. I have long accepted the fact that I love flowers and plants but I'm just not very good at making them grow. That makes this orchid extra special.
DeleteI love your bag and your orchid. It's great that you're able to use those fabric swatches in this way.
ReplyDeleteI love African Violets and had about 15 in my kitchen that had grown huge. I just kept taking a leaf off and regrowing another plant from it. Then we moved house and they all died. They like the light and in this new house we didn't have the right place to put them.
Maybe that is why this orchid did so well. I put it in the new sunroom we had built. All of the plants are doing better out there. Maybe it is not 100% my fault after all.
DeleteI bought 3 orchids to cheer me (& my customers) up two years ago. They bloomed for 6 months and elicited much advice and amazement. I took them home after they quit blooming and managed to get them all to rebloom this year. ***I treated them just like my African violets.
ReplyDeleteThey like a lot of diffused light with no extremes of temperature.
Dry out before watering with very light fertilizer.
Black fabric on this evening bag is great.
Thanks, Kathy for the advice. That is what I am hoping for. The final bloom is opening today. I made it...all are blooming at the same time!
DeleteGreat looking bag and those orchids are gorgeous. I remember going to an orchid show in Seattle once and was amazed how many different orchids there are and how beautiful and delicate they look.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Daryl. Good thing I posted it when I did. The last bloom opened yesterday so they were all blooming but today the first bloom is folding up. Hopefully the other blooms will take a while to leave. It started blooming a couple of months ago.
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