I recently made a couple of sewing accessories using some of these gorgeous fabrics from the Blue Sky collection by Laundry Basket Quilts that I'd bought from Cross Patch a few years ago. I decided that I really needed another sewing bag too, so using a mixture of fabrics from this bundle, combined 2 bag patterns - the Perfect Quilted Tote by Elizabeth Hartman (available to purchase as a PDF download from her website) and Sew Happy Sewing Bag by Gail Pan Designs (pattern available here in the UK from Poppy Patch here in the UK) - I particularly liked the stitchery design from the Sew Happy Bag...
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...once the stitchery design had been traced onto a piece of fabric, I used a lightweight fusible interfacing on the back, then hand embroidered the design using a blue DMC stranded embroidery thread in a shade to match the fabrics. The bag front is made using the quilt as you go method, using scraps of fabric. I used a piece of tape measure ribbon for decoration, along with a few vintage buttons...
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...both the front and the back of the back were quilted very simply, and I've used a polyester felted wadding - Vlieseline/Pellon H630 - if you wanted to make a more structed bag, you could use a firmer wadding such as Bosal, or ByAnnie's Soft and Stable. I cut out squares from each lower corner of both the front and back, as I prefer this method of making boxed corners. I repeated this for the lining too..
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...inside the bag there's a zippered pocket, and a slip pocket too. As I wanted to use as much of this fabric bundle as I could, the lining is very scrappy too...
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...once the handles and lining have been stitched in place, the top edge is topstitched - I've used an Aurifil 40 threads for all of the construction of this bag, including the lining and quilting, in a selection of colours to compliment the fabrics...
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...and here's the completed bag, ready to fill with some hand sewing projects.
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