So, you will have the front and the back of your bag quilted. 8. The edges will most probably be wonky by now, especially if you used free motion quilting, no problem, trim them, they do need to be the same size so be careful. Set them on one side...
9. For the ruler pocket... Layer a piece of batting and a piece of fabric (fabric will be inside pocket, not seen) 2" + wider than your ruler and a bit longer than your bag. You can use a single piece of fabric to make the pocket top, but here's how I did my pockets, to use up scraps and to add interest.....
10. Dig into your scrap bag or cut strips from yardage if you want more co-ordinating fabrics...
11. Place one strip roughly in the middle of the pocket piece and pin it in place. Choose second strip, any width will do but the strips need to be a bit longer than the width of the pocket...
12. Place second strip on top of middle one, pin and stitch, using your walking foot..... this is quilt as you go...
.... fold the strip back and finger press the seam.
... then just continue adding strips in the same way....
...stitching all of them using your walking foot...
.... taking care to finger press the seams back to prevent unwanted baggy strips....
13. Keep going until you have the batting/wadding covered. Trim off as little as possible from both long sides to get them straight... if you want to use some of your decorative stitches, like in crazy quilting, you could do so now, follow the seam lines... go for it!
14. To finish the pocket top now..... fold back the last fabric strip
then trim away the batting and backing fabric with your rotary and ruler, leaving 1/4", like the picture....
then it will look like this.....
fold strip fabric over to neaten the edge then fold again to cover raw edges....
then pin it neatly in place....
Sew a seam to hold it all in place
then it should look a bit like this, very neat and very easy?
15. Now cut two strips of fabric for the pocket sides, they need to be longer and can be any width, 2" is very easy, press strip in half, pin to pocket sides and stitch raw sides together, you need the strips to be overhanging the pocket top.
then press the strips away from the pocket..... Done!
16. Place the completed pocket onto the right side of a bag piece. It is a good idea to centre it too... use the bottom of the bag as your level starting point, you can trim off the edge bits ONLY from the bottom.
then, these bits need to be folded over the edges of the pocket top
and pinned in place all neat and tidy.....
and then you can sew, with your walking foot, a couple of lines of stitching down each side of the pocket....
if you haven't already done so, trim off the bits at the bottom of the bag....
Do you understand it all???
Off you go.... do that and I will be back later today with the last part...
It takes ages to upload all these pictures and I have chores that I have to do, he he he
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