Well, there is ONE of the circles sewn into that wine tote project. Good thing I began with the lining because it didn't go well. The kit instructions had you do fusible interfacing on the lining to give it structure, and batting quilted to the outer fabric. Let me just say that the fusible interfacing makes it next to impossible to smoothly "ease" that circle into the bottom of the lining. I plan to hand baste the bottom circle to the outer fabric because it needs to look nicer than that lining does.
When I got frustrated with the wine tote, I switched gears to work on the Hemmingway bag because that is a fairly easy project. The zipper is an interesting process for this bag, and really the only tricky part. The bag body is all one piece, cut on the diagonal. The zipper is taken apart so you only use 1 side and attach that to that diagonal seam.
The diagonal is folded around so that the zipper meets again at the edge. And now the tricky part - getting that zipper pull back onto the teeth of the zipper. Any little thread sticking out will cause a headache. But both the large bag, and the mini made with the trimmed triangle are ready to finish with the binding added inside the bag.
And because I was still irritated by that wine tote, I decided to play with scraps for awhile. Remember the orange Paint Chip block from my Saturday Post? It was made with 2.5" squares, which I have in abundance. But I also have a TON of 1.5" squares.
See the cookie tins and sewing notion tins? All full of 1.5" postage stamp squares cut from scraps over the years. I've been using them in the Gameboard blocks to make the center 16-patch unit. And yesterday morning I had this crazy idea (squirrel) to use some to make miniature Paint Chip blocks too. Why not? The tins are really getting full anyway.
Maybe today I'll finish up that wine tote project. Or maybe another squirrel will distract me, and I'll go off in another direction. LOL
4 comments:
I recently saw on Pinterest they are using a fork to hold the zipper pull while putting the zipper onto the pull. What method do you use?
I am laughing (with you, I hope) on all the bag making issues. Sometimes, things just don't go our way. And I have had my problems, too. I find them very putsy. But I love your free spirit to dig out 1 inch blocks. I just love little pieces, myself.
Sorry you are having problems with the wine tote. I'm sure you'll get there, just take a break from it. The bag sounds like a fun one to make, but not that zipper! I think that had been a job for my DH! Before my sewing machine went to the spa, I pieced together a lot of 1.5" squares too, the box was getting full since I hadn't done it for some months.
At least you've part of the painful process over on the wine bag. You made good progress on your Hemmingway bags and your scrappy blocks. I need to do something with my 1.5" strips, they are overflowing. But not till I finish a few projects.
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