Bag Job

Here's a present I've just made for my Mom. In England next Sunday is Mother's Day and last Sunday it was my mom's birthday so I wanted to do something special to celebrate.

This simple bag was made from a scrap of pieced and quilted fabric. You may recognise the Fibonacci Sequence in the strip piecing. It was then quilted on the New English Quilting frame with a variety of Superior Threads using a Ripple Stipple free-motion quilting pattern. Click on any of the images and you'll get a good close up view of the ripple stipple pattern.

I didn't use any batting or wadding, just the pieced top and a backing fabric. I was curious to see how this would work and I'd intended to use it for a table runner. But when I found it last week I thought it would be just perfect for the bag.

The bag was made without a pattern. I got the idea from googling 'homemade bags' on the web. But once I got the main idea of how to put the thing together, I just made the bag in a size that seemed right to me. The lining was slightly smaller so it would fit nicely inside. It only took a couple of hours one quiet afternoon this week. I think my mom will love it.