Sentimental Stitches

I don’t seem to stay in one place for very long these days. This huge Amish center diamond design was a pleasant surprise when I arrived at today’s destination. Can you guess where I am?

Do you have it figured out?

The Davis Mercantile with it’s beautiful new quilt design, is located in none other than - [...]

Clutch and I are at the cottage surrounded by quite a bit of my fabric stash and yet I’ve sewn very little.
I haven’t even pulled out the So Sew Easy Bag to work on the Pretty Pocket I want to add to the lining for the first Twist on the pattern.
As my boys would say [...]

I’m sorry it took me until Tuesday to get back to this tutorial but I had a feeling that would happen. I’m pretty sure you were able to finish your bag following the instructions in the pattern but I’m going to add a few more steps here just in case.

Turn the outer bag right side [...]

We are getting to the home stretch here. How many of you are laughing at me and saying “You can’t make this bag in a couple of hours”. Yes, you can make the bag in a couple of hours but let me tell you, you can’t write a tutorial that fast. Dang - it’s taken [...]

Isn’t it amazing the results you get after stitching those twisted seams? That’s when you feel like you’re making progress toward an actual bag rather than a strange looking pinwheel with no possible use.

Hopefully your bag looks like this.

Now we’ll work with the fabric and batting strips you cut for the handles and get started [...]

This seems to be the place lots of people get confused about what to sew together. I was scratching my head the first time I made a bag so don’t feel bad if you’ve gotten stuck here.

We’re going to be bringing these two strips together. The seams that connect the strips appear to twist around [...]

It’s time to lay out the squares and triangles that will form each strip that twists around the outside body of the bag. I’ve been known to mix up the fabrics or change my mind on something at this point. Now’s the time to rearrange things if you’re not happy with how things look.

Referring [...]

Now that we have our fabrics selected and a placement decided on it’s time to begin cutting. I’m only concentrating on the outside part of the bag right now and the handles.

From fabric “A” cut four 8″ squares. I wanted to use the large flowers for this square. I cut an 8″ square from tracing [...]

I hope you’ll enjoy making the basic squares version of the So Sew Easy Bag with me. If you haven’t printed a copy of the fabric requirements and instructions you can get them HERE.

You need to choose at least 4 fabrics for the outside of your bag. One of them will be the top triangle [...]

Schlep Bag - Twist Bag - Easy Squares Tote - Such a Simple Bag - whatever you want to call it, this is my go to pattern anytime I need to make a quick and stylish bag.
The basic squares bag is perfect as a tote bag. Smaller squares will make a great purse, a [...]