Manhattan Miss Bag

I made the Manhattan Miss Bag, which is the April bag in the Bag-of-the-Month Club. I made the Manhattan Mamma Bag first, which is larger than the Miss. You get both sizes in one pattern. The designer of this bag is Janelle of Emmaline Designs.

A few years ago I used some Shiva Paint Stiks and some textures and rubbed the paint on a piece of fabric with the textures underneath the fabric. Then I quilted the fabric with some variegated thread. I had planned on making a simple zippered bag with this fabric. But it sat for years. Then I wondered if I had enough to make the Manhattan Miss size bag with this quilted fabric. I cut out the pieces I needed, but didn't have enough fabric for the flap, so I decided to create a crazy quilt sewn log cabin style pieced flap and used several decorative machine embroidery stitches too. I didn't want a zipper in the flap like I made in the Mamma size, so I instead added some decorative lace trim around the flap. I also had to do a few things differently, since I had quilted the fabric with a backing fabric, it was in essence already lined, but I needed to bind the raw edges after I sewed the pieces together.

The Manhattan Miss is a nice size bag for someone wanting to carry just a few things or a perfect size bag for a child or teenager.

Manhattan Miss with crazy quilt flap and lace trim.

Painted fabric with paint sticks and textures and quilted with variegated thread. 

Variegated thread and decorative machine stitches on the crazy quilt flap.

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The Mamma Size Manhattan Bag

This is the April bag for the Bag-of-the-Month Club, called The Manhattan Bag and was designed by Janelle of Emmaline Bags. I love the shape of this bag. I wanted to do something fun on the flap, so I appliqued a flower to the flap and added a few embellishments. I really like how this bag came out and I like the size of the Mamma, which is the larger of the two, the other is the Miss size. Here is my version of the bag:

I used a Guatemalan style fabric for the bag.

The pink around the flap is a zipper. The flap unzips into a pocket. The pattern also included an eyeglasses case that you can make and Velcro into the flap pocket. I didn't make the case, but this pocket is also handy for holding other things too.

I created an appliqued flower for the flap. I used a variegated thread the stitch the flower in place. I added some orange paint to the pink flower, sewed an aqua felt piece that I dyed with Kool Aid, added a few embroidered touches and some buttons.

The back of the bag has a zippered pocket.

There is a slip pocket inside.

The strap is adjustable. Under the flap is a slip pocket. So there are 4 pockets in all.

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