How to sew a crazy quilt clothespin bag.

Finally I can share photos of my clothespin bag with all of you, I just want advise you that the clothespin that you see in the pictures is longer than the previous one I showed in my previous publication.

I will upload pictures of the two for you to understand. What happened was that

when I finished sewing the first time the clothespin, I found that it was not long

enough, here are the photos:

This is before

This is after

It was at  the end that I decided to do it longer so,  it took me a few more days to finish this

project, now the clothespin measures 16.5 "and is large enough for all my

chopsticks.

Now that this is explained, I can start with the tutorial

In my previous post I shared with you all the steps that I did before starting to

sew my project. Click Here for the first part of the tutorial. Today I will share with you some photos I took during the creation of my project.

Once I finished drawing my pattern, I began to create my crazy quilt,

and I used the technique which I explained in this tutorial, but I'll show some

stages that I did.

To begin  I cut a 5 sided piece of fabric, and a piece of lace, put one over the

other.

Then I used my technique, SEW, FLIP, IRON and CUT the surplus of fabrics.

I'll show what I mean, I cut a second piece of fabric and I will place this piece

on top of the first piece, wrong sides togheter.

sew using 1/4" seam allowance and trim to obtein a straight edge

Flip the second piece of fabric over to conceal the seam and expose the right side

of the fabrics, and iron.

cut another piece of fabric and repeat the same steps, if you want to add a piece

of trim, what we do is position the trim and match the edges

add another piece of fabric on top of the trim, match the edges one more time

and sew, flip, iron and cut the excess of fabric.

For questions about this technique I invite you to read the tutorial with every

step that I published previously and that is *here*

I put together my crazy quilt in this way, adding pieces of fabric each time and

sometimes adding a piece of lace or trim

Every so often you have to go checking the form that is taking this crazy quilt, to

see how it's going on, to do this I will  put the crazy quilt fabric, on my

pattern, this allows me to see where I have to keep adding fabric.

I created several pieces of crazy quilt and I'm going to put them together later.

When all the pieces are joined, it will look something like this

I put the  pattern paper on the fabric and cut, the center and the outer edge.

Now I have a more nice pattern to work on.

I started to make the embellishment, to do that I made a sandwich with a layer of

stabilizer first, then a layer of batting and finally the fabric, I added decorative stitches,

crochet flowers and buttons.

To finish the front, I cut a piece of lining with the shape of the pattern, I put

the wrong side in front of me, put the crazy quilt on the lining and I finished the

part where the hole is, using a piece of trim that I sewed all around it.

The back side of the front panel it looks like this

Then I prepared the back side of the clothespin bag, I placed a piece of backing

fabric, batting and the outer fabric,



and sewed together using a running stitch

I added a bit of trim on the top of both sides to hide the hole where it will come

out the hanger

                                       

To continue I placed the front and back, right sides together and sew the two

pieces together using a ¼” seam allowance, leaving about 8 "unstitch  at the

bottom, to leave enough room to get through that space the hanger,

and I also leave without sewing the upper side where I added the trim.

Then slide the hanger through the space we had left open

What remains now is to hand sew the bottom

So I ended my first version of this project

Then, I lengthen as I told you in the beginning, because I did not have much room

for my sticks!!!

Here I'll  share with you more pictures I took, I liked this project so much that I've

taken a few pictures from all sides, top, bottom, middle, if there are many I

apologize, I could not resist!!!

Here ends this tutorial, I had great pleasure in creating this clothespin and also

in creating this tutorial to share with you all. I hope you liked it, if there were

spelling mistakes, I apologize, I tried to do the best I could.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, I always appreciate your comments and I always hope that this blog continues to grow with new followers, do  not hesitate, you are welcome!!

 

I'm linking this project to Positively Splendid , Creating my way to Succes, and to Threading My Way, Quilting and Patchwork ~ Link Party.

 

Have a happy sewing day!!!!!

Marisa