Logcabin Purse
posted by Kate on 8/22/2006 | Link To This Post | 5 comments
This purse wasn't planned. It kind of just happened. I have this list in my head of projects I want to do and in what order I'm going to do them. Then, I get an impulsive idea, like this one, and make it - TOTALLY disregarding all the other unmade projects that are waiting patiently in line for their turn. This bag is a line cutter.I had all these fun, bright fabrics and thought I'd experiment with them by making a logcabin block. I cut out all the strips and thought they looked hideous together, so I decided to scrap the project entirely and put it aside. A funny thing happened the next night, though. I decided it wasn't really that hideous and I might as well go ahead and make it. It would be a good learning experience, if nothing else. I need to experiment more with fabrics. I tend to lean towards lots of tone-on-tone and solid colors.
Anyway, the end result turned out not to be hideous! And, I did learn lots of things. This purse has my very first ever quilted handles. It also provided me an opportunity to use the seam gauges on my walking foot for the first time (I was always too chicken to try it and just drew all my lines on the fabric). So, I call it a success. Ta da!
5 Comments:
I am TOTALLY in love with this and want one of you purses so badly! They are verging on Vera Bradley purses that I adore.
I've been thinking for sometime that I should post comments on the blogs I read. So, yours is the first. Your item about how the purse project just sort of interrupted your other plans really struck a chord with me. The same thing happens to me all the time. As a matter of fact, I just put a quilted wall hanging project on hold to make a patchwork tote bag. Like you, it came to me totally out of the blue! I had reached the point of making the handles, and was hung up on exactly what to do when I read your idea about quilting them. Fantastic !!! This is just what I'm going to do !! THANK YOU.
I LIKE the purse!!!
i found your blog last week and love seeing your projects as I am into quilting and sewing. I love the purse. It's cute and the fabrics do go together in that they don't (if that makes sense).
I love your purse! The fabrics are all bright pastels so they go really well together, I think. I have also tended to go for the safer, tone on tone combinations, but I find that when I dare to do the unexpected I end up with something much more interesting.
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