Quilt Story: April 2017

Welcome! Today is my stop on the Bountiful Fabric blog tour. The designer is Sharon Holland, and I LOVE this new line for Art Gallery Fabrics. I love her description of this line "Bountiful celebrates the beauty and natural resources of the Midwest America countryside through the use of soft brush strokes and fresh tones such as celery, sienna, teal, and slate gray."

I am was so excited to participate in this tour. I chose to work with this beautiful canvas fabric, and created 2 new bags. My daughters have already claimed both of them!

This first one is actually a bag upcycle. I purchased this black bag (it was all black at the time) it was on clearance for $10. I figured half the work was done for me, and I would pay that much for the zipper and straps anyway. I think it looks pretty great!

Plus it looks like it took a lot of work/skill, but it didn't. I just unpicked that main panel and pinned everything back. I am going to keep an eye out for clearance bags in the future.

The second is a quick tote I created. I combined a couple pinterest tutorials, and came up with this pattern and design.

This was simple too, because the straps were just cotton webbing. (I think that is what it is called) and then I added this charcoal panel. A pretty lace embellishment and it was done. It looks the same on both sides. The pockets are nice for phones, or little notepads or books.

A little close up on the detail.

Make sure you visit all the other stops, there are some cute projects going on in blog land. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like my bags. I hope you love this new fabric line, Bountiful, as much as I do!

Monday, April 3

Heidi Staples

Blog: fabricmutt

Instagram: @fabricmutt

Tuesday, April 4

Emily Dennis

Blog: quiltylove

Instagram: emily_dennis_

Wednesday, April 5

Minki Kim

Blog: Minikim

Instagram:@zeriano