Holiday Sewing

No, not THAT holiday - don't panic! I mean *my* holiday! I'm now off work until after Labour Day. Imagine me doing the Snoopy Happy Dance. YAAAAAAY!

I was a somewhat delinquent Bee member this month. Well, make that *last* month - I only just finished off two blocks for the last month of Maple Leaf Bee 2. Which was July. Brenda asked us to make some wonky star blocks and sent a whole bunch of fun scraps to work with. These come together fairly quickly because there's really no measuring other than the background squares. (We used this tutorial.)

First block:

Second block:

Both blocks:

We're going on a little sojourn back East to visit with my family, and I thought G would like to have her own little backpack to carry things on the plane. Using this tutorial, I whipped one up. My grommet tool didn't work at.all. for punching the hole in the fabric so that was annoying but luckily, I have a surgically-sharp seam ripper that did the trick lickety split.

Back (all fabric chosen by G):

Front:

Linking up over at Canoe Ridge Creations for {Sew} Modern Monday!