Things I forgot - part one

I know it's a bit late now, but I never did show you the few Christmas presents I made for my friend and her two children

For Lennie, I made a Noodlehead bag - the Madras Tote Bag.  I made this one for myself when I went to the Fat Quarterly retreat last year

I had a piece of nice summery heavy cotton (duck cotton?)

And I lined it with some baby blue spotty fabric I bought locally

Can you believe she won't use it yet because it's too summery!

For the kids I made a drawstring bag using this tutorial from Christine at Grapes and Hearts.

They do a lot of traveling between child minder, grandparents and home, so I thought these would be useful to carry cars, farm animals, dinosaurs etc, and make a handy play mat when they arrive at their destination.

Kris is mad about space, so I tried to find some good space-ship fabric but had to settle with road signs!

 Sabi is a bit easier - she loves farm animals

Sorry this is a bit late, and Christmas is obviously just a dim and distant memory.  I'm determined to start earlier this year!  I have another advent calendar to make too.  Lennie didn't give me much time last year, so I only made one.  I hope to refine last years and make a second one so there are no arguments about who gets what!