Christmas through the Year!!!

I'm currently on a small respite.  My mother is between surgeries and I've been able to attend to some of the (much neglected) other parts of my life.  With that said, I have to tell you a funny thing.  I won a washbasket full of fabric at guild (we had a variation of a Chinese auction that night).  All the fabric was donated by members and was fabric people no longer wanted.  Here is a look at my washbasket after I washed all the cloth:

Say, do you know what that bear fabric is?  YES!!!!  That is tablecloth material from the 1980s.  I know because my best friend had a whole bear ensemble of this fabric way back then when our kids were little.  It's a rather course polyester blend and I received ROLLS of this.  Now me, I love a challenge so I thought this was a blast.  At first, I intended to make placemats and did one prototype but didn't care for it.  So did this instead:

Yup more gift bags!  So far I've done about a dozen of them and have cut out another dozen to make.  I like these small projects that I can finish in a short time.  I think I need the satisfaction of that these days.  Will post more projects later this week.......