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December 16, 2014

Made: Weekender Bag

December 16, 2014

weekender bag

I love this bag. LOVE IT. And i use it everyday as my work bag, so it gets TONS of use.

I’m a bit behind in documenting my crafty – this bag has been finished since September! Yikes. Well, here we go!

Amy Butler’s Weekender Bag has been on my sewing list for a few years now. I had bought the pattern ages ago, but couldn’t muster up the courage/desire/willpower to actually make it.  It wasn’t until my friend Heather mentioned a sewalong of sorts at a Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild sew in. We needed moral support.

I loved the look of this bag, made by Jennie at Porch Swing Quilts. I used 2 charm packs of Kate Spain’s Good Fortune for the patchwork panels, a Cotton + Steel basic for the handles and piping and a solid turquoise for the zipper panel. Modifications I made to the pattern was to lengthen the handles by about 5″ and I added an interior zip pocket on one side.

I worked on it pretty steadily over a few weeks, finishing up the day before I hopped on a plane back East. Work in Baltimore, then hanging out with friends in DC for the weekend. And the bag came with! It’s large enough for my work laptop and a whole bunch of other stuff. I used it as my carry-on AND my be-bop around the National Mall bag.

weekender bag-2

OH, and here’s a story. I was in the National Galleries, looking at a Van Gogh, when a woman came up to me and asked if I had made my bag. She said it looked great, and that she was only asking because she has the same fabric back at home!

 

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Posted by norine
Filed Under: sewing Tagged: bag, made, travel

Comments

  1. Aunt Marti says

    December 17, 2014 at 7:12 am

    Love it! And I have that fabric at home, too!

    • norine says

      December 17, 2014 at 8:18 am

      Thanks Marti!

  2. Heather Ferguson says

    December 17, 2014 at 8:35 am

    I’m still so jealous that yours is finished, and mine is still a pile of fabric and half-sewn side panels in my craft room. It turned out so great!

    When we were in Disneyland last month, I spotted a handmade bag because it was made from Basic Grey’s PB&J fabric, which I used to make pillows and a table runner for my house. I love spying handmade items in the wild! ha ha

    • norine says

      December 17, 2014 at 11:03 pm

      You might not have a completed Weekender, but you did finish that beautiful quilt for Sadie’s teacher.

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