UPDATE: New Zealand Chapter

What adorable things Bagettes Olive and Cathy have been making over in New Zealand! Love all their hard work for so many different causes. Keep it up ladies, love to see what you are making and sharing with your community! :) Teresa 🧵🧵🇳🇿🇳🇿

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Hi Teresa--

Bagette Cathy and I have been busy again sewing bags amongst other things for community gifting. This is 12 drawstring bags in Christmas fabrics for our neonatal unit (first photo) plus 22 library bags to be gifted to our community libraries. 

Also, our quilt club members also made a heap of bags and I forgot to count or get photos. The bags are loved by library patrons which they keep so we keep sewing more.

I've also been sewing a few of these (second photo) for friends' birthdays. Then my friends don't have to use a plastic bag to carry their sewing or knitting projects. 

Bagette Olive, Chapter Coordinator, Palmerston North, New Zealand

 

TeresaMade

I've reloaded my etsy shop this week with lots of fun things. Everything from Snoopy to Pickleball! Go check it out here: TeresaMade 

Mettler 🧵 Thread!

A HUGE thank you to our fabulous sponsor Mettler for a box of great thread! 🧵We ❤️❤️❤️ it sew much. It’s the best for bags and beyond. I’m going to the studio to sew the handles in the pile in the second photo with these amazing spools. 🥰🥰🥰

Photo Finish Friday

🌼🌼🌼 Guess what time it is at the cabin? Squeeeeee. I love the daffodils so much and thankful to the previous owners for planting so many varieties. Wishing you a lovely flower filled weekend. 💛💛💛🧡🧡🧡Teresa

Update: Berlin, Germany Chapter

Look at these fabulous bags available at a yummy coffee shop in Berlin! How amazing  way to go Bagette Audrey and the whole Berlin Green Bag Lady Chapter! Keep up the great work!

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A "new collection" is available at the bag tree in cafe @kreuzpunkt_michendorf starting today!! Each bag is unique!

Every weekend 14:00-18:00 there is also very tasty coffee & cake, ice cream and regional products!

We sew voluntarily with donated fabrics and donate our bags in exchange for a promise to stop using plastic bags when shopping.

Bagette Audrey, Chapter Coordinator, Berlin, GERMANY

Lately

It’s been a beat. We’ve been traveling and I’ve gotten caught up in summer tennis. 🎾 Little Girl, Ellica, graduated👩‍🎓from Belmont University at the beginning of May and we went to a wedding 💒 in MN this past weekend. Hubby and I celebrated our 28th anniversary on Saturday too. Such a fun start to the summer. Hope you are enjoying good weather and good times. 😊😊❤️

Photo Finish Friday

Little Girl is back home after graduating 👩‍🎓 from Belmont University last weekend. We are enjoying having her here again. 🩷💛 She helped me go to Costco yesterday, pick out flowers and plant them today on the front porch and back deck. So excited to hang out amongst them this summer. 💐 🌺 🌹 Our neighborhood is hosting its first Farmers Market tomorrow, excited to go! Of course, I’ll bring along some bags to give out. 💚💚 Happy weekend! Teresa

Exciting News!

I'm thrilled to announce that I am now selling Harmony Art Organic Cotton fabric in my Etsy shop. Yay! Harmony and I have talked about this for a while and it has finally happened. You can purchase fabric by the yard in yummy patterns and various weights: denim, cotton sateen, muslin and twill. Great prices too! And, a lot of the fabric is 110 inches wide which makes perfect quilt backs, sheets, duvet covers, etc! 🧵🧵🧵❤️ Yipee!

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Happy Earth Day from all of us at Green Bag Lady! 💚💚💚♻️♻️♻️🌎🌍🌏

Things I Finished Today

I was a busy bee 🐝 in my sewing room today. I finished 2 small baby quilts for my friend Janet. Her husband passed several years ago and she kept all of his neckties. She asked me a couple years ago if I would make quilts for her grandbabies and incorporate the tie fabric into them. Such an honor to make these lovely keepsakes. I think these are the 4th and 5th ones I've done for her. The quilt on the left, the tie fabrics are the lime with dots, the maroon golf and the blue basketball hoops. The one on the right, the tie fabric is the purple and grey and the lime stripe.They turned out so sweet. ❤️👔

Then, I FINALLY got to make something for ME. I made myself a new tennis bag! Yippee. The handles were in shreds on my old one and it was looking worn and sad. (The last one I made myself was in 2015!!) I used some upholstery fabric for the outside and some Harmony Art organic denim for the interior. I'm so exited to play my first match of the season Thursday and use my new tote! 🎾 🎒