Three nice things came together for me yesterday in a very pleasant way. First, a friend had given me a set of 2 1/2" Batik strips some time ago. Then another friend emailed me a picture of a bag she had made--so very attractive, and she shared the pattern with me. Then I received an invitation to a birthday party for another friend for next week Wednesday.
The three events meld perfectly into a new project, begun after lunch today and brought to a pretty good state by tea time. The first step was to cut the strips into 2 1/2" squares, four of each fabric, and 27 fabrics in all:
Chain piecing is the way to go! After there were four sets of those fabrics, I added the top row in the first picture to the sets. These were all pressed in opposite directions, so when I sewed the sets together across the three fabrics, all the seams "nested." Here are the four sets of squares.
Now this looks quite strange! How will that configuration ever result in a bag? That's the neat thing about this pattern. You'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how this turns out!
The three events meld perfectly into a new project, begun after lunch today and brought to a pretty good state by tea time. The first step was to cut the strips into 2 1/2" squares, four of each fabric, and 27 fabrics in all:
Next step was to sew the middle row to the bottom row, in four sets:
The seams need to be pressed, but I wanted to see first which pressing direction will work, so I lined the sets up the way the way they will be sewed together.
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