Chicken Scratch Sampler Bag

Sometimes I scare myself. It goes something like this - I was making a quick jeans bags, but it has been waylaid by a whole lot of other bags it wants to play with.

So, I thought I would just grab a bag of scraps, left over from making my apron, maybe add a bit of the purple gingham I had been Chicken Scratching (well, purple and pink, why not?). Because I wanted to play with seeing if I could put CS on CQ. And yes - this is all cottons - I don't have any hangups about using cottons for CQ.

And, I had made those stampings - may as well use them.

And, if I looked at all the pictures around of Chicken Scratch, I might just try and put a sample of this one here, and that one there ........

So far I have worked the conventional CS on the left of the blue sweet peas, and a piece from Dawn's vintage one to the right. Interesting pattern that one - more later. Now I am off working on the bottom lefthand side.

I have moved on to Anchor perle #8 crochet cotton, and it is a dream to work with.

I usually wouldn't touch gingham in a CQ, as it is so strong. But in this case I wanted a sampler. And I wanted to see if the Chicken Scratch toned down the gingham enough to make it usable.

And there is always my old approach of - if you have a fault, make it a feature - and see what happens.

Oh, yes, and I still need a shopping bag. This is it.