Originally Posted by J Miller

I made this .... with a lot of tutoring from my wife.

For almost a year now I've been cutting 3.5" squares from any and all scraps my wife leaves after making her craft things. Cotton, canvas, and something kind of synthetic. I use them to test sew the machines I work on. I ended up with about 20 6.5" squares made by sewing the 3.5" squares together. What to do with them? I decided to make a wacky bag.
Sew, I used our newly acquired ALDENS machine and assembled the squares into a bag. Then Elaine showed me how to make an inner bag and make tucks on the side so the bottom would be flat. We used muslin for that.
After that the inner bag was put in the outer bag she showed me how to do the handles. Those were left over from another craft project so they didn't go to waste.

I think it turned out pretty good. The ALDENS worked good, even to sewing over multiple layers of material without stalling.

So below is the front and back of J Miller's wacky bag.

Joe