One Flower Wednesday and some Christmas Gifts....

You can never do a kindness to soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.   --Ralph Waldo Emerson




It's that day again...........the day when Karen at Journey of a Quilter puts her linky up for One Flower Wednesday and if you will click on the link I provided you can see all the beautiful hexagon flowers growing there..................
Here are the hexies I have to show you  this week.  This is one of the flowers that transitions from Munchkinland houses to the sky......That is a Munchkinland Rooftop you see in the bottom center petal and you might remember the bubbles coming down and around Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.....

The flower fits between these two partial flowers.......

Like this.............

So next week remember I showed you all the equivalent of two flowers today in case all I have to show you is where they fit into the wall hanging......lol......and I have a good excuse if I don't get another flower ready because I have been busy trying to work on all those Christmas tote-bags I told you about on my last post.......

so far I have finished two of them...............a "Frieda Kahlo" bag and a "Radiology Bones" bag..............One of the ladies on my staff loves all things Frieda Kahlo and another loves all things having to do with bones and Radiology............so here they are:

First, here is Frieda...................and this is the same pattern I used on the "Pink for the Cure Bag" I showed you on my last post....

 Both the outside and lining have this cool bottom part..... so it sits nice and flat when you set it down...

 Inside of Frieda Bag------>

I used the same fabric inside as I used on the upper portion of the outside of the bag.  Although I love the way it looks and matches and I believe this was the right fabric to use on this bag I still like the ease of using the pre-quilted fabric, as well as the stability it gives the bag  when used for the inside.

And here is the Radiology "Bones Bag".......(I would NEVER pick this fabric for me but she's gonna love it!  Would you believe the fabric even glows in the dark???  Yep...it does...)

This pattern is called "For Pleats Sake" and is a free U-handbag pattern .

When reading the instructions about the "V-openings" I was a bit lost and wasn't sure what was meant by that (I do not love reading instructions...)  but after finishing them I was so amazed.  These so-called V-openings.....(I prefer to call them "side slits" haha) give so much more access to the inside of the deep bag.....you can see EVERYTHING clear down to the bottom!  As you can see I used the pre-quilted fabric on the inside of this bag.....

I have one more bag to go and this one will have a celestial theme to it......I finally picked a pattern and, of course, I couldn't just use the pattern "as is" but instead made a few changes.....I'm all done except for the handle and the closure..... ............I'll plan to show that finish to you on Friday so Ta-Ta for now......................