Monday, February 28, 2011

Style Stitches Monthly Bag Challenge: The Reversible Everyday Shopper

I finally got a little time in the sewing room this weekend. Woo hoo! The project on deck: the Reversible Everyday Shopper from Amy Butler's Style Stitches. It is the February bag for JemJam's Style Stitches challenge.


It is a happy robot bag!

Reversible Everyday Shopper, outside views
This is the outside view, front and back.

I just love the canvas robot fabric. It is awesome. And its heavier weight works really well for the bag. The pattern actually calls for two decorator-weight fabrics. But when I bought the robot fabric, the coordinates I picked were quilting-weight. I decided to use both of them anyway. I didn't have much of the stripe, so it is just used as an accent. For everything else, I used the number print. Numbers just seemed appropriate for robots (though I suppose if I wanted to be really cool, I would have found one with just 0s and 1s).

Reversible Everyday Shopper, inside views
And here's the reverse side.

I did make a couple of changes to the design (in order to incorporate more of the 3rd print), including a small pocket on the inside of the bag and adding contrast bands to the the big pockets.

The instructions for this bag were clear and concise. I think it definitely fits the "easy" rating ascribed to it in the book. If not for the massive time-sink involved in applying interfacing to every single piece, it would be a pretty quick project. But because I used quilting-weight cotton for some the bag, I definitely felt like that was a step I couldn't skip.

Like the Cosmo bag, this one is HUGE. But I think it is going to make an excellent library book bag.

Big Bear with big bag
Bonus: Big Bear likes it too!

4 comments:

  1. Big Bear is so adorable!!
    Of course the bag is too but once you see your boy you forget everything else.

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  2. I love that robot fabric too! a while ago, I bought a camera strap made from that fabric and it's awesome!

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  3. lol, I love the picture of him and the bag!

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  4. Great bag. It looks like it would hold quilts too that you could take to show and tell at your guild.
    Big Bear is growing.

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