A little while ago I showed you my stack of oriental paper peiced hexagons that I’m putting together as a scrappy ‘Firefly’ bag . Here’s a little update on how the project is progressing:
I’m using the hexagons themselves as a unit of measurement and basically building up the peices of the bag in multiples of hexagons. In a very ‘quilt as you go’ fashion I’m backing the hexagons with felt for ease, and to give the finished bag a bit of structure. The bag will have a simple envelope shape, and when I’m finished, an over the shoulder strap. You can see the lay out of bag peices here:
Bag parts assembelled
Including front piece, a larger back peice which includes the fold over flap, the sides and the bottom. You can see it’s already beginning to take shape.
Bag taking form
Now I Just have the slow part to do of making the strap, but pretty soon I’ll be stitching it all together. I’ll let you see how it goes…. b.x
