Productivity!

There's been a bit of productivity around here lately and I'm excited to have a finish to share.

This travel bag is a byAnnie pattern and made using Soft and stable.

Last time I shared about the bag, I'd got to this stage below. I had a spare afternoon over the weekend and pulled it out again.

The most difficult part of the bag is to sew it all together and put the binding on. It's do-able but you just have to take it slowly. Where some of the pockets are, there are a few layers. The soft and stable squishes down pretty well so you get there in the end!

The binding is all on the inside and it gives such a nice tidy finish. There's a zippered pocket on the inside (shown above) and then the slightly elasticated one, in blue below —

(it also needs an insert put in it to firm/strengthen the bottom. A friend is cutting up an old cutting mat for me, when she cuts hers.)

I sewed some nice big buttons on the bottom to help protect the base —

A pocket at each end and a really professional looking carry strap with the proper swivel things hardware, etc —

On the front, two pockets, the zipped one and a sneaky one just above it —

And on the back a trolley sleeve and another sneaky pocket —

As you can tell by the fabric this is going to one set of grandies as their bag for bringing to Ganma's when they stay overnight (the younger twins). I'll scotchguard it and will make a second one once I've taken a breath!
It does need to live at The Country Yard for a wee while first, as a class sample. Just as well there's no sleepovers planned at Ganma's for a while.
(Yes it is a lot of work to make a bag like this but oh so worth it to get such a useful and unique result - but you're all crafters so you know what I mean...!)

Although I've seen plenty of the kiddies this week, I've been able to grab a bit of time to prep and sew a few more blocks.

This afternoon when I sat down I had these laid out and ready to finish—

A wee while later I had two more scrappy Christmas blocks to add to two I made the other day —

Fun fabrics to play with —
(only 8 more needed now)

Another couple of Omigosh! blocks —

And a couple more star blocks for our Scrappy Star Adventure at work —

So all is well in The Palace at the moment ♥ I've been able to sew sew sew,

'til next time,

happy stitches,