Sewing:

For this project, I made the larger size that is offered in the pattern. An Insul-Bright material is recommended to be used from the pattern. I thought it would be fun to go a different route for my version and use wool batting for a natural alternative. I added two layers of wool batting to the outer bag and one layer to the bottom of the bag.

I initially thought I would use the rust denim for the outer fabric. Once I received the fabrics in hand I fell in love with the Tim Holtz print. The lining fabric is mostly hidden so I decided to switch and use the denim for the lining.

I decided to apply the fusible interfacing to all of the fabrics. The denim is called out as an 10 oz weight on Art Gallery Fabrics website. I think the denim feels on the lighter end of a medium weight. I decided that adding interfacing couldn’t hurt (I didn’t want the bag to be floppy).

I had an issue with the document fabric (that was my own fault). I washed the fabric on a warm water cycle with a dark navy linen fabric included in the wash. The navy bled to the document fabric and changed the color tones from greys to purples and blues. I still like the final fabric but I wanted to note that my end fabric looks a slightly different than the original fabric.

As I was sewing the bag, I saw some variation in the corner edges. On the inner and outer portions of the bag, you can see a fold in some of the corners.This wasn’t a huge deal but I wanted to note this, for reference.

Along the bottom of the bag I had bulky seams and had to sew carefully. My machine could handle the layers but I wanted to note this for reference. The extra layers of wool batting added to the seam’s thickness (in addition to layers of denim and interfacing).

I wanted to note that I used a 5” length for the turning hole for the bag. The pattern called for a smaller turning opening but I needed to use a seam ripper to open up the turning hole to 5”.

I found a zipper foot handy to use when sewing the buckle clips onto the webbing.

I thought I’d note that I used a 5/8” webbing with a 1” clip for my bag. This webbing/clip size mismatch wasn’t intentional but I made it work for this bag.

Continued in my next post...

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