I made 2 more
Open Wide Bags. The pattern is from Annie Unrein of ByAnnie. I made both of these in the small size. I made the medium Open Wide in a black with white polka dots first when I tested this bag for Annie. I really like this bag a lot and next time I will be making the large size.
I wanted to try playing with my fancy machine stitches, so I stitched various stitches in variety of threads and colors. I also couched some yarn too. Both bag exteriors were from the same tie dyed piece of fabric that I had. I chose a different lining and accent color for each bag. Since I was making these bags rather artsy looking, I didn't add the accent strip on the fronts of either bag. I had so much fun using the different stitches and threads. I used cotton, polyester and rayon threads. Some were variegated and some were solid colors. I used a variety of yarn scraps too: wool, eyelash yarn, ladder yarn, ribbon yarn, acrylic, and some blends too. I will be using this technique on more bags and quilts because I had so much fun and am using up some yarn scraps too (although not much yarn is used). I should have taken photos of the fabrics with all the stitches on them
before I cut them up and sewed the pieces. Several stitches got mostly or completely cut off, but they still turned out looking great!
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| I stitched this bag, with the green accents, making the stitches vertical. This is one side of the bag. |
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| This is the other side of the bag. Since the stitches were done vertically, you can see most of the same stitches on both sides of the bag. |
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| Here is the side of the bag with the zipper tab tucked in to hold it in place when it's closed. |
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| Again, I chose to use fabric for the inside pockets instead of the mesh suggested in the pattern. |
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| I left one pocket large and the other one I divided in half with some stitching. |
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| This is the second bag I made with a pink stripe accent fabric. On this bag I chose to stitch the various stitches horizontally, rather than vertically. So each side looks different. I had some tinsel eyelash yarn that I couched. It has a metallic look to it, but the couching flattens a lot of the tinsel eyelash look of the yarn. |
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| The side with the zipper tab tucked in when closed. I used a metal zipper on this bag. |
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| The other side of the bag you can see has different stitches and thread colors. The aqua yarn at the top I couched was a chenille-like yarn. On the very bottom of the back is a rainbow ribbon yarn, but you can barely see it on the bottom right. The pink and blue satin stitch above is the same stitch, only I mirror imaged one of them. |
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| Of course I added zipper pulls to both bags. Sorry part of this photo is a touch out of focus. |
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| The lining has fabric pockets here too. |
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| I also divided one of the inside pockets in half creating a total of 3 inside pockets, like I did with the other bag. |
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| Here are both small bags. Even though they are small, they are pretty roomy inside. |
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