My Travel Bag
About a week before I was to leave Florida, Rachael wrote me on Messenger and said, “I need you over here at the store at such and such a time.” I wondered “Why?” She said, “Julie is going to be over here then.”
Rachael had decided that I needed a nice big, squishable purse. I had had to replace my purse because it was peeling - (sad face) and beginning to look terrible. However, I wanted a big one for travel. I couldn’t find one locally at thrift stores and really didn’t have time to go looking around each individual store trying to find a purse. I looked on Amazon but didn’t find one that actually struck me as something I wanted.
Anyway…I wanted a tote size bag.
I found a new (to me) purse at a thrift store (wow, prices have gone up!) - but it was sadly too small for what I wanted for the trip back. I now needed a bigger bag to use as my hand bag - something I could put my purse in PLUS my bag of electronics and headphones I had purchased.
So, Julie made me one. We met at the store and I chose this Philip Jacobs/Kaffe Collective fabric. A few days later Julie brought the finished bag to the store. I still can’t figure out WHY she wanted to to do it. I know it was a lot of work!
But it was/is beautiful and will be great for other trips as well! It is such a pleasure to just look at.
It had room for my purse, a bag of electronic goodies (cables, a hard drive). and some headphones - plus a Logic Problems book I like to travel with.
While it is big - it did “squish” up and I could put it under the seat in front of me on each leg of the journey! It helped that I didn’t have it jammed pack full - there is no way it could have if that had been the case.
The pattern is “By Annie”. Julie made it bigger than the original pattern - I think she said she expanded it by 2” wider and longer - so that expanded it considerably!
Thanks, Julie, for such a gorgeous bag!
It dwarfs my silver carry on. Here’s the thing - it’s not full - and was collapsible so as to fit under the seat in front of me.
If you are near the Quilted Twins store and want to learn to make a bag from the lady who made MY bag - check out this class here! August 28
What an experience!!!! Make one yourself and gift one to a friend to do it with you!
Have a great day wherever you are reading this! Oh wait…if you want some of this gorgeous fabric, you can get it here! Click on the photo below.
Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store here!
Here’s one of the beauties we have!