New Quilted Tote

I made a new tote bag about a week  ago and it went together pretty quickly.  It was the first time I’ve ever used those magnetic snaps for closure and I couldn’t believe how easy they are to install!  I had fun quilting the front and back but the photos of the front sides don’t really show the quilting all that well:

Here are a couple closeups of sections:

This photo of the batting side (before I had added the lining) shows the quilting of the front side better:

For the backside, I divided up the large square shape into 8 symmetric quadrants and traced the same spine guideline (mirror-imaged) into each section.  Here’s a shot of the batting side once 4 of the 8 quadrants were stitched:

…and here’s a shot of what 1 quadrant looks like after both mirror image feathers have been stitched:

…and here’s what they looked like after all 8 feathers had been stitched:

This is the first tote bag I’ve made that didn’t have a boxed bottom and I worried that it wouldn’t hold much because of that, but it’s been pretty user-friendly for me so far.  I may try making another of these without quilting to see how it works.  Personally, I like bags that have a lot of body but so many people don’t like machine quilting and opt for unquilted bags that I think I need to see if they really work.  Report to follow…

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3 Comments

1. Becki Says:
   
   June 17th, 2013 at 5:00 pm

   Patsy, this is beautiful. One cannot have too many totes!!! Your feathers blow me away.

2. Debbie St. Germain Says:
   
   June 19th, 2013 at 9:06 pm

   I really love how that came out, something I would like to try.

   Debbie

3. Free logo digitizing Says:
   
   July 3rd, 2013 at 1:34 pm

   i really love your tote bag it is so good and quite technical job definitely tough for new commers