The 4th prompt for Project Quilting's 16th season was "Birthstone".
Many thanks to Kim Lapacek of Persimon Dreams and her friend Trish Frankland for pulling this challenge together again for us to enjoy!
The most important rule this go around was that the birthstone's color had to be the predominant color in the project.
My birthday is in July, so that makes my birthstone the beautiful ruby.
I have several pieces of ruby jewelry and in the bright sunlight, the ruby often looks like a deep pink.
That's the direction I took when choosing fabrics from my scrap pile.
Deep pink and hot pink sprinkled with a bit of light pink and lime green.
I also pulled out a pile of cut-offs from HSTs and added them to the corners of 3" strips.
I then sewed all of these together.
At this point, I really had no goal for this project.
I now had an odd shaped piece of fabric that needed a purpose!
I went looking through my Pinterest board of sewing projects.
I didn't need another tote bag, that I knew!
What I did need was a small hanging basket to hold my lotions in the closet.
The Pocket Pod Basket, a free tutorial from Caroline Fairbanks at SewCanShe was my choice.
Caroline has soooo many awesome sewing and quilting patterns on her site.
I've made several and they are super well-written and fairly easy.
Here I've laid out the pattern and have chosen the lining.
Caroline suggests using fusible fleece interfacing, but I didn't have any.
Instead, I used Pellon Craft-Fuse from my stash.
It worked wonderfully.
Both the exterior and lining are cut.
I chose not to add the pockets to my pod.
Both pieces have been sewn and are ready to be put together.
The "birthing process". Sounds awful, but it is what it is.
I added 2 buttons from my mom's old button basket.
If only they could tell their story!
I see a few more of these in my future!
Once again (yahooo!), nothing new was purchased for this project.
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That is great that you are a ruby too. Your project is wonderful. And nice that you can make something that you can use for the challenge. I hate the term "birthing" but it is a great technique to get something made quickly.
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