Thank you for the PDF now I can save it and not have to hunt it down. A friend asked me to make something, out of some printed blocks she is getting, for the Japanese Chin Rescue and that same day your bag tutorial was posted. I hope you don't mind I showed her the bag and she loves it so I told her I would make bags out of the two blocks. I just wouldn't be able to do the butterflies and dragonflies because I wasn't that good. :-) Is it ok if I do that with your bag design?

Absolutely! I did the tutorial to help anyone that might want to do a bag! I actually used it as a practice piece for quilting. I'm still learning FMQ and enjoy making small projects that I can try new techniques on. Hope you post a picture of the bag you make! I would love to see what others come up with! Let me know if you have any questions about the bag! :) :thumbup:

So nice, great job just love it.......did u motion quilt on a regular machine, I want to try on my Singer but scared....
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What a lovely tutorial for a spectacular travel bag. Beautiful colours and quilting.

Beautiful bag! I love your pre-finish techniques and those handles are really clever. What I want to know now is where/how you learned to do that FMQ? I'm very impressed. Maybe you could do a tute on that?

Just love what u did here, thanks for sharing the tute too

so cool, I can't wait till i'm able to do the quilting that way. that is very pretty.

Thanks for the tut. Your quilting is also very beautiful.

I just ran across this again. I have some of those scrap rolls from where the company puts them in the grab bag type thing instead of trashing the stips with the selvege.....this would be a great project for those!! ;) I sent this to a friend and just had to look at it again. Just love it!! ;) Thank you for sharing the tutorial.

How beautiful. this is a great way to use up scraps. Must try it !

wow..looking great.you have created..i like it.thank for sharing

Me too! Just think of the "stuff" you can carry and not have a droopy bottom.
Great bag, beautiful work. Congratulations!

I also saved the PDF file. When I said "save" my computer said "You already have this in your files". THEN I realized that this tute was from Feb. and Yes I had already saved it. I love your directions and the bag as well. I hope you won't mind if I print this and share your directions with my Senior Center quilt group. I plan to make it first with some blues I purchased from WalMart. Seems that when someone takes a project to share with our group they all want copies of the pattern. Thanks again.
Sandy

Thank you for this excellent & thoughtful post, so full of ideas.. it is helpful & your post motivated me.

Very nice!!!!!

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Wow, neat bag. Never though of use plywood for the bottom. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tutorial. Nice bag.

Love your free-motion quilting...how long have you been at it? I'm just learning myself but am not nearly as good at it as I am at hand-quilting.....but there's NEVER going to be enough time to hand-quilt everything soooooo.......thanks for posting this great tutorial. Blessings....

Hi!

How do you get your handles to come out so neat and straight? Mine always go wonky / crooked. GThe material is always twisting on me as I sew.

If there any tutorials that have helped you, please let me know.

Susan

Love it! May just have to try one

Thank you for the tute. I am definitely making this bag but first need to figure out how to print it side ways on a sheet of paper filling the page.

This is a beautiful bag. Thanks for the great ideas. I love the inside as much as the outside.

that is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your tutorial. :)

I really like your bag! and tute!