One of my favorite places to look at fabric on-line is Keepsake Quilting. I like that they group fabrics into fat quarter bundles. Their catalogs are fabulous! Anyway, I saw a bright, colorful bag on their site I loved. It came as a kit, with the typical disclaimer that the fabrics they send may not exactly match the picture. I love the fabrics they sent with the kit, but I immediately wanted to use them with other projects and making the bag felt like a "waste" of good fabric. And I wasn't even sure I would like the bag--since I bought it based on fabric and not the pattern.
So I made a bag using the pattern from the kit. My bag is made from scraps from my curtains and old jeans. I liked the pattern. You can't see the detail of the quilting in the photo (and I don't take better pictures, I'm afraid) which is words and phrases from hymns.
I liked the first bag I made so much, I made a second bag. This bag has a gorgeous batik flannel scrap and 3 pairs of old jeans donated by my friend Lisa Hunt. I even used jeans pockets for pockets.
I should probably give this bag to Lisa--although it doesn't have any M&Ms on it. Now, if I only had a friend with an embroidery machine. . .
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