This idea came to me after seeing a commercial for gum. Yes, strange, I suppose. I cannot even remember the gum, I just remember the "strap through the handles, yeah, that could work!".
The shape of the bag is one where "when you need more stuff at the beginning of your day". Like a trip to the park, with snacks and a change of underpants for the toddler... by the afternoon, the snacks are gone and you really don't need a bag all that tall.
Incidentally, the "grow" idea works in reverse too- take just a wallet in the purse at the beginning of your shop hop and as you start buying gobs of fat quarters, use the bag in its "taller" shape.
Here, let me show you the specs:
The bag starts as a tall, deep hand-held bag. The body handles are made with a facing, but unlike other bags, the facing is part of the design. See that red rectangle? That is the actual facing for the inside AND outside handles. The bag is roughly 10" x 20" (roughly half of a fat quarter) with shaping darts at the bottom to make the bottom edge about 3" deep.
The bag has mix & match sides. I like the contrast when the bag is in its folded down shape. The lining is also green and yellow. See that red strap right there on the lower half? You can drape the burp cloth (or shop hop flier!) through there when its not being used to fold the bag down.
I also added
quilted handles to the sides of this bag. Can't go wrong with coordinated
quilted handles.
Now the coolest part of the bag- its made with 3 quilter's fat quarters (18" x 22" cuts) and very minimal waste. I purchased these lovelies in Hawaii on the island of Oahu at
Fabric Mart last summer. ...technically, I'm using up my stash...
Let me show you the inside.
I added a pocket way down in there, just for good measure. And those of you faithful blog readers will be floored to know there are NO magnet clasps in this bag. Crazy, right? :)
Ok, so that is the new fun flashy bag. I've made good notes as to "how-to" make it and hopefully I'll add bags to my
pattern line. Thanks for checking out my bloggy blog. Have a good one!
The Folded Fat Quarter Purse
I hope you head on over to YouCanQuiltThis.com to purchase your pdf. Have a great Thursday!
Thanks for checking out my bags. Have a great Tuesday! ~jen~
Yes, the pink and black is so fun. The new pattern has both images and provides yardages for the large quilt, 90" x 75". You'll have to go check it out over on my design site, www.reannalilydesigns.com. You can purchase it on the ReannaLily Designs site, or soon, I'll have it in my Etsy shop, www.reannalilydesigns.etsy.com.
Yep. Seven. My first plan was to use the 6 1/2" squares as corner stones in a rainbow quilt. For that I need 28 blocks. Technically, I'm 1/4 the way there, so that's not too bad. BUT who knows when I'll get back to leisurely hand sewing... I might end up with a 7 square table runner.... You'll just have to stay tuned, through 2010-2020, to see how it turns out.
I've got zippers and vecro and welt seams all over the place. So far, I have 12 bags cut, ready to assemble and have finished two. I'm very proud to report that these two have generated quite a bit of buzz and are on their way right off the shelves. (Hooray!)
Look for even more of them over in the Etsy shop, in the purses category sometime next week.
Each bag is roughly a 13" square and is 3.5" deep. The straps are 22" long and each bag has a zipper pocket on the inside. You'll have to drive by the Etsy shop to see all the images. I think all the fabric in the shop bags are by Free Spirit.
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When Seamingly Accurate was picked up for production and distribution by Quiltwoman.com, I thought it'd be smart to register my trademark. So I did. That was about 10 months ago. The US Patent and Trademark Office website is not the easiest to navigate. They have all the forms available for you online to fill out... but then all the verbage on the forms is like rocket science. (Which is kinda funny, since my brother and sister-in-law both worked as rocket scientists for a while. I digress...)
When you start the application process there's a disclaimer that says it can take up to 18 months. I'm very proud to report that I'm bringing down the average! Wait, that doesn't sound good....
I also added quilted handles to the sides of this bag. Can't go wrong with coordinated quilted handles.
Now the coolest part of the bag- its made with 3 quilter's fat quarters (18" x 22" cuts) and very minimal waste. I purchased these lovelies in Hawaii on the island of Oahu at Fabric Mart last summer. ...technically, I'm using up my stash...
I added a pocket way down in there, just for good measure. And those of you faithful blog readers will be floored to know there are NO magnet clasps in this bag. Crazy, right? :)
