Thursday, May 10, 2018

Bag Lady

I've been on a pouch making kit lately. Small projects are super fun to make and it's satisfying to work on a slightly different skill set. Most pouches don't use a huge amount of fabric, and I've found they can be great to use bits leftover from larger projects, especially small bits left from precuts and the large strips leftover from backing quilts.


























I usually have long, four to six-inch strips of fabric left after trimming the excess away from the quilt, and I found that these pieces are great to use for bags and pouches. I often use large scale prints on the backs of quilts, and it can be hard to find a use for little bits of large-scale prints, but they work beautifully as the lining of pouches.

I recently made a couple of Sew Lux's Brickyard Double Zip Pouch. Rather than a mini-charm pack, I used some bits leftover from a layer cake for the pieced front. And I had plenty of trimmed backing fabric to use as the lining fabric. All I needed was a coordinating solid, some interfacing and two zippers to complete the pouch!




















The pattern was a delight to use. Clear directions with clean illustrations enhanced the creative design of the pouch. I will certainly be making more of these pouches and will likely be buying more pouch patterns from Sew Lux Fabric in the future!




















Please note: I purchased the pattern from Sew Lux for my personal use. No consideration was given and these opinions are my own.