"Ball of fire"

I have finally got the Make a shape tutorial I promised you in the OWOH post done, and I have even finished a quilt with the sample, “Ball of fire”.
The quilting did not exactly turn out the way I wanted. It was supposed to look like fire, but the red centre is so visually strong that the quilting fades into the background. I also learned a lesson about off centre designs. Make sure it really is off centre even after cleaning up your edges, or it just looks like you have done a mistake. As usually, I have bound the quilt, and will keep it with my other little lessons learned; I like to look at them.

I have also finished 7 of the shopping bags on my to-do-list. I know we are supposed to aim high, but I think I aimed a little too high with these.

Long story short: I bought 3 different fabrics last spring and promised my family I would make them shopping bags. I cut the yardage into rectangles, 28 of them, made some handles from leftover fabric, bought webbing for the rest of them; and was all ready to go. I made one bag and got bored. The last couple of months I have been working on them in between other projects. Sewing a few of them in steps make them tolerable.

They are very simple, but they all have French seams in the sides

and those little ear flaps at the inside

that make square corners on the bottom. Some have fabric handles,

some have webbing handles,

all off them secured with an extra x-seam.
They turned out fine. I gave the grey/pink ones to daughter and will send the blue ones to my parents as soon as I finish some more.

Now I'll pop over and add this to Amylouwho's Sew & Tell.