Special Bag for Mom and Birthday Festivities

Pleated tote pattern by the long thread.

Hi guys and gals! I haven't had a whole lot of time to sew this past week with my birthday and a track competition, but I did start brainstorming some ideas for a Valentine's Day special. I'll share more details on that sometime this week.

My dear sweet mama asked me to make her a bag exactly like the one I made in my first tutorial review to bring with her on her trip down south in February. She wanted a blue bag and left the fabric selection up to me. I went to Fabricville and found these cute prints that I think go really well together. I hope she likes it! :)

I really have the best of friends. I turned 21 last Friday (yay!) and for the first time in 21 years, I got a surprise birthday supper! It was a complete surprise and I hadn't seen it coming, so they planned it really well!

My boyfriend Mitch had asked me to pick out which restaurant I wanted him to bring me to for my birthday, so I picked St Hubert. A couple of days before my birthday, he told me he had made reservations for the two of us. Some alarms went off here, because I'm pretty sure you can't reserve a table for less that 4 or 6 people, depending on the restaurant. But he reassured me and told me they were very busy that night so they thought it was better if we reserved. So I didn't think much of it.

When we get to the restaurant, the waitress walks us across the floor to the back where there was this really little table for two against the back wall. As we approached it I was getting a little bummed because I didn't think that was the most romantic place to be (it was more like they just shoved us in the corner of the place, which sucks if it's your birthday). BUT then we walked right by that table for two and the waitress opens a door into a BIG conference room where all of my friends were waiting and yelled out SURPRISE!

I was so happy to see them all. They really made my birthday special. :)

Now I'm all birthday-ed out and will have time to sew sew sew. (Except for next week-end because I'll be going to McGill in Montreal for a track and field competition. But I'll still post another review on Wednesday and announce the Valentine special!)

Kermit wanted to be in the picture too.

The pattern for the bag in these pictures can be found here and the review for it can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week! :)
-Stephanie