My dog ate my homework......

Growing up, we never had a dog,

so I always thought it was a lame excuse

when one of my classmates would

tell the teacher that his dog ate his homework.

Well I can honestly say that my thoughts

have changed recently.

You see, my dog is part Shi-Tzu, part Bichon

and apparently part billy goat.

He LOVES to eat paper.

I've known this since we brought him home.

I do my best to keep paper away from him.

He's eaten more coupons than I care to admit.

Having said that,

in the 4 1/2 years he's lived with me

he has NEVER touched my cross stitch supplies.......

until now.

Last week he ate 2 packages of hand dyed floss

and a hand made button.

This week he ate a brand new Lizzie Kate chart

complete with the tiny buttons!

(to be fair, he did leave 2 buttons uneaten)

So I realized that I needed to make a project bag

to hold my chart, floss, scissors and magnetic board.

Yesterday I made this fun little bag!

It measures 11 1/2" square.

Just perfect for even my larger Bent Creek charts.

I've had this darling chicken print fabric for a while now.

I stumbled across it on ebay and they only had 1/2 yard.

So I've been keeping it safe for just the right project.

The salvage reads "exclusively for Joann's".

If anyone knows where I can get more,

please let me know.

I quilted it together with orange gingham

and cut out and stitched

 an orange felt heart as a zipper pull.

Now all my goodies are safely put away

and if my crazy dog decides to suddenly try to eat it,

I'll be listing him in my etsy shop the next day!