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Diaper Bag for myself…

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I made this Red Hot Chili Purse last weekend at a class at the local quilt shop (the one that I just found out is going out of business):
Red Hot Chili Purse

Purse, side view

And the lining:
Inside

I chose a light lining color so that my stuff won’t get lost in the darkness of the large bag. Helen (my four-year-old) and I chose the chili pepper fabric, and on Friday of last week she helped me pick out all the other scraps from my stash to go with it. The main black fabric on the front flap was Helen’s idea — not something I would necessarily have grabbed, but it was PERFECT. And I used all of the rest that I had in my stash, and even had to put that green strip in to make it go as far as it did. Helen’s very good with color — always has been. As soon as she was able to walk around in the quilt shop, she’d pull fabrics that went together startlingly well. Granted, fabrics at the LQS generally DO go together pretty well, since Mary stocks her shop with complimentary fabrics, but still. Helen was too good at it too frequently for it to be a complete coincidence.

Anyway. Back to the purse. This is a Barbara Randle Mega/Diaper bag. I meant to make one while I was still carrying diaper bags (and I kinda still am, but time is running out on that), and now with the trend moving towards large purses I just went ahead and made it anyway. It’s large enough to carry all the bulky stuff I need to carry around — like my graphing calculator, for tutoring — without overflowing.


Posted in General on November 27th, 2006

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