Monday, May 10, 2010

Quilted Lunch Bag

Man, I was excited about this little lunch bag. Remember that fabric I bought a little while ago? I thought it would make a super cute lunch bag. Also. the picture in the book (One Yard Wonders) made it look really easy, check it out.

It's quilted with insulated batting so it's super durable and will keep your lunch cold! (And it makes a crinkly sound that makes Rawbean laugh.)

Now I'm no slouch when it comes to sewing. I had never worked with bias tape before but I found a great
online tutorial so the bias tape on the straight edges were super easy and came out perfectly. Then I came to the last step - which says "...continue working your way around the entire bag...". Um, pardon?

Imagine taking a cardboard box with ninety degree corners and running it through a sewing machine. Neatly. How do you turn the corners?
So anyway, here is my lunch bag.

Don't look too close! You will see the crappy corners and awful job I did at sewing the bias tape on the outside.

I think the awesome fabric makes up for it though.

4 comments:

rawbean said...

Okay when I looked at the first picture I thought that was your lunch bag and I was thinking "that is so different than I remember, I'm sure the bias tape was a contrasting colour....WTF"

Then I read the post and scrolled down! As you already know I think it's awesome and I totally get a kick out of that insulation stuff - as if that exists.

Way to take on a challenging project!

galapogos said...

Very cute!

Christielli said...

I love the fabric a lot and think you did a great job for your first time working on a project!

Again, love the fabric. I'm into birds big time, so that's why.

Kimberly Pye said...

I love it! Now I really must have that book...