Island Batik Ambassador's What's In Your Bag? Challenge

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenge to create a Byannie - Patterns by Annie bag project.  I chose to make a Ditty Bag 2.0.  I found this to be one of Annie's easier patterns and I really enjoyed it.  The add on videos helped with any part I found confusing and it's great to be able to see it being completed in a video.  The first step was to iron all my fabric flat with my wonderful Oliso iron.

I chose to make three different sizes of bags.  While sewing I always do my largest bag first to get an understanding of the pattern.  Then I do the same step on the medium and small bags.  This way when I get to the small pieces I know what to do.  I used a white thread for all my sewing and matching threads for all the quilting.  All Aurifil threads sewn with Schmetz Microtex needles of course.

Here is the small the small Ditty Bag.  It's made with the Island Zest collection from Island Batik.  It has a turtle print stripe!  In retrospect I would have switched the turtle and the red fabric so you could see more turtles.  However, I love it.  It's small and great for a makeup bag or a cord bag when traveling.

The medium Ditty Bag is made with the Poetic Bouquet Collection from Island Batik.  I love this purple and how it makes the purple in the blue print pop.  It's a great size for a small medicine bag for a short trip or for holding your quilting notions.

The large Ditty Bag was made with the Turtle Cove Collection by Island Batik.  I love how you can really see the turtles on this one.  In retrospect I would've picked a more contrasting print for the stripe, but it's still a lot of fun.   It's a big bag.  I would probably even work as a lunch bag.

These are all wonderful bags and I can't wait to give them to some of my favorite people for Christmas!

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy