Here’s a cute idea to freshen up your projects! I'm still on a mission to use up my stash and scraps, including these little crumb packs (2½” squares). I have quite a few of these; they are perfect for little projects because there isn’t enough fabric to make anything very big.
I added gray 2½” squares from another small scrap and laid them out in a checkerboard grid. I sewed them together into rows, then sewed the rows to each other to form a panel.
This ended up about the size of a small placemat, 10½” x 14½”. I layered it with batting, and backing, and quilted it with my typical ¼” ish straight lines. It's all very predictable so far 🙂.
Now, for the fun part! I used my Hera marker to score in straight lines in a grid pattern, halfway between the seams in both directions. This gave me a straight line to stitch my ¼” wide bias tape down, crisscrossing in a plaid pattern.
I started by stitching down one side of the bias tape, then turned the piece around to stitch down the other side. I like to topstitch as close to the outside edges as I can manage. Because the base piece was already quilted together, it was very sturdy and easy to add the bias tape right over the top without using a walking foot. I think this would work with ribbon if that's what you have.
Here it is after adding all the bias tape in one direction. Now, you can see it coming together after adding the bias tape in the other direction.
Look how cool that came out! It kind of looks like Argyle Plaid. Talk about transforming basic squares into something way more fun.
I decided to make a box bottom bag with a zipper using this panel. I did a very detailed blog, a while back, showing how to make these fun and useful little zippered bags. Here is a link to that blog, if you’d like to make one like this.
Here it is all done!! I liked working with the super narrow bias tape, and I already have ideas for some spring bags, with little green bias tape stems and pink bias tape bent into petals. This idea could keep me busy for a while ;) Haha!
Happy Sunday everyone,
Krista
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