Sentimental Stitches

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.

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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 [...]

I’ve been shoveling, carrying, packing, dragging and trudging in the snow for two weeks but the end is in site. It’s going to be a difficult ending I’m afraid. The weather here is making life miserable for everyone.

It just kept snowing and snowing and snowing until it was nearing the top of our 36″ [...]

I’ve finally finished working on new instructions for what used to be called the Schlep Bag. It’s now the new and improved So Sew Easy Schlep Bag. At least that’s the name right now. I’m still open to suggestions. I’ve uploaded instructions you can use for the basic bag. A little bit of fabric, a [...]

I’m back in Traverse City (at least for a week) and thought you might be worn out from all the Christmas shopping yesterday and be home stitching today so I’ll try to get this tutorial posted before I leave for work this morning.

I think I told you I first heard about this in an [...]