Another week, another bag! I had a strip of bargello
patchwork left over from demonstration years ago and there seemed too much work
in it to throw it away. So I quilted it onto a strip of batting with
free-motion machining.
I decided to construct this bag more easily, the way I
always made tea cosies in the olden days when they were fashionable. I folded
the quilted strip in half with RS in. I folded the lining, cut to the same
size, in half too with RS together and placed all the pieces together. I pinned
round the outside edges to hold the layers together during sewing.
I trimmed away the excess fabric across the lower corners of
the bag.
The corners were shaped by sewing across from the lining
side.
And, if I had had my wits about me, I would have made sure
that the lining was a lot longer so that I could have turned over the excess
fabric and sewed it down to bind the top of the bag. As it was, I had to trim
what was there and prepare a separate binding.
Handles were made in the same way as described previously
and there was another bag for sale at Gresford this month, 17th to
20th.
Last month I attended a fabric book workshop run by Maryke Philips,
ably abetted by her husband Geoff. They trade as ‘Batiks and Beads’ which meant
that they had wonderful supplies to support the workshop. This was outside my
sphere of sewing experiences but I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. It was the
colour of her samples that attracted me and here are some of my humble attempts
so far. Beads were used extensively throughout Maryke’s work and they looked
lovely but this girl decided a while ago that she loathes sewing on beads and it’s
a direction she doesn’t particularly want to go in!!!
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