Making Silk Bags

The bag shown in this weeks' earlier blog and made in two colours is reversible and here is a picture of it all in one colour with the pocket on the inside (the purple one)

The second silk bag for Bredon Crafters this month in green measures 14" X 12" (not including the shoulder straps).  It is a neat little shape, is lined and a perfect design for adding embellishments such as applique or embroidery (a blank canvas).  It would make an ideal evening or going to a party bag.  In another fabric it would also be useful as an everyday handbag.

As mentioned in my earlier blog the purple and red one is an easy bag to make. The green one is not a difficult bag to make either but takes a little longer. There is no zip or complicated fastener to put in.  It needs half a metre of lining, and a pretty button.  Everything else will be supplied at the Wednesday session for a cost of £3.50.

Worksheets are written up and will be circulated on Wednesday.

I am also going to contact Kay to see if she can bring the instructions for the little reversible bag she brought in to show us some time ago - this means there will be a choice of three different bags.

The patterns will have to be copied but this means you can take them home with the worksheets and use them again with different materials if you want to.

I will bring all the silks that crafters have already chosen and a few extra ones as well in case anyone wants to change their mind, and if making the two colour one this will help to choose two co-ordinating colours.

 Now these bags are finished I want to get back to my course work. The next stage is to do some samples of  Banjara, Kantha and Sashiko Quilting.

Then comes the big one - my final assessment piece which is to be a silk quilt with the emphasis on applique - scary!

I hope to share some of this with you - so watch this space.