Monday, June 5, 2017

2017 Tote and Shopping Bags

I bought a new Heavy Duty sewing machine so I can make a bunch of tote bags and save my good sewing machine for more delicate quilting projects. The sewing machine performed as advertised on the first bag. It ate through the thick seam as if to ask, "What seam?" I am pleased with my investment and hope to make many bags this year. Total was 40!
The first bag, made with sale fabric from The Laurel Leaf's going out of business sale. I made it using a pattern whose instructions were to use a layer of iron on fleece and a layer of medium weight iron on interfacing on top of the fleece. The bag has a very nice "hand" so the writer of the instruction was spot on. I don't have enough fleece to make many bags this way, but I need to keep this method in mind for special bags. Linda in yoga.
Used the Soft and Stable product as the batting. Soft and Stable makes a springy bag that keeps its shape and stands upright. Yoga
Used Soft and Stable to give bag shape. Yoga
Used polyester batting and medium weight interfacing. Bag was kinda hard. Yoga.
Used 80/20 Cotton/polyester batting. Ann took this one.
Used 100% cotton batting. Landy took this one.
Yoga
Both yoga
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Yoga
Yoga
Yoga
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PFit            
PFit
PFit
PFit
One Pocket.  PFit
Apples and Oranges: First Side
Apples and Oranges: Other Side. PFit
Yoga Teacher with some of the bags!
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Pocket on one side Miriam
Pocket on other side
Pocket on one side, Yoga
Pocket on other side
Outside, Sally
 
    
Inside
PFit
Outside, PFit
Inside
Outside, Yoga
Inside
A little bit bigger, 2 pockets, Loretta
Also a little bigger, Cindy
Yoga
PFit
Sonna
Both Yoga
Yoga, Aunt Linda
Outside, Inside, Detail of Quilting. Quilted in squares with blue thread to resemble graph paper pages in a lab book, Yoga
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Mondo Bag using purchased pattern. Given to Loretta.
 
Bottom of Bag
 
 
Pattern for Mondo Bag
 
Bag made with lefts from Mondo Bag. Given to Lee.
This bag was made from a free charm pack that Craftsy sent me. The quality of the fabric was very good, so i will buy more of this fabric line. Given to Lee.
The free charm pack