Friday 20th March - my new project bag

 Now that Ang has posted her collaboration, I shall do the same;

I think of this side of my little bag as the front, as the two bottom left patches are the first in this collaboration,  and the two top right patches are the last.

Here's the other side.

I had to stop for a couple of days for Deep Thinking before I began tommake up the bag. I had 12 patches, a blue zipper, and the red and grey fabric that Ang sent me.

I made the bag by piecing the patches together English Paper Piecing style into a strip three squares wide, four long. leaving the sides and top open.  Next, I stitched the red lining to a grey woollen backing, both supplied by Ang, to make a piece of fabric which was the same size.

Time for More Thinking.

I finangled the zipper next; I wanted to arrange things so that the zip was sandwiched between the lining and the outer, and so that all the stitching was invisible. And, most importantly, I would end up with the zipper on the outside of the finished bag!

My word, that was a Brain-hurty thing to work through, but I got there! 

I over sewed the edges of the lining together, and then oversewed the edges of the bag outer, remembering to include the 2x2 tag 

Finished!

No, not quite, II still needed to sew in tthe tape with our names and dates.

It's now my mending pouch, with room for socks (or one thicker sock), a darning mushroom, Ang's scissor pouch, some needles and cards of mending wool.

Now, what shall we do next? It might be fun to do something that incorporated Ang's experiments in machine embroidery... my own machine is a very basic elna lotus which I bought way back in 1979... but it is possible to embroider with it... I did try once, a very, very long time ago... But what should we make... ?