You always need snacks.
I volunteered to demonstrate a small tote bag I made from a kit I'd purchased at the local quilt shop, Patched Works last year.
The bag is small, 2.5" x 2.5" x 6" when made according to the pattern. Of course you can make it any size, limited only by how large a zipper you have. They do have that zipppers on a roll that's about 8 yards long...
The hardest thing about doing this, besides fitting it in in 15 minutes and talking for an hour and a quarter? Making step-outs that make sense. I cut a bunch of kits up, and then started stitching. The first one I finished. The second time, I almost did the last step and stopped myself just in time from cutting off something that I wanted to leave on.
Once I numbered the steps for myself it was easier, but not easy. I just wanted to keep going, and get them all done.
The pattern was in the kit. It was free from the Moda Bakeshop. When I made mine, I'd had the kit for about six months. At that time the pattern was still on the MBS website. When I went to find it for the class it was still there. I looked for it today to link to it and could not find it. It's got a big logo at the top that says Made with Love, and underneath that are the small words "Patchwork Pouch". Here's a jpeg photo of it.
Anyway, the class was fun, every 15 minutes I had to reorganize my step outs (which I numbered and that helped a lot) for a new group of faces. They all had different ideas about how they could do their own bags and what they'd use them for... I will look for many bags at show and tell in the next couple of months! By the time the last group came I had the dialog down pat. And I needed a serious glass of water because my mouth was the Sahara Desert.
Now that Schoolhouse is over, I can finish all my bags...
Sew on!
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