Wantobe Quilter Guest #3 Joan with her orange you glad you have them -Storage bags

"Orange" you glad you stumbled across this fabulous blog? Today we are going to put together something we can "all" use every day. Threads, notions, pieces and parts, patterns and pages, where do we put them all? How do we store them? Transporting them all to classes, seeing where things are...   Help me, Help me!!!

Now, your just gonna love how fast and easy it is going to be to accomplish, even for brand new sewers and quilters. So lets jump in and get our feet wet! Supplies are simple, we are going to need some transparent plastic, ribbon, fabric for binding(leftover binding if you have it, is perfect) and Velcro along with our regular sewing supplies and we are ready to go! Oh yes, when stitching on plastic, we need either a Teflon foot for the sewing machine, or some tear away stabilizer, which I personally love. It makes things very easy to sew and rips right off when your done. That darn plastic loves to cling to the foot and bed of our machines.

The transparent plastic we are going to need, comes from fabric stores in the USA, like JoAnn's Fabrics, Hancock's, Hobby Lobby and Wal Mart's if you are lucky enough to still have one by you that sells fabric. I seldom see plastic in quilt shops. It does come in different weights. I personally like the medium weight. It is heavy enough for my needs and still very easy to stitch on. This photo shows the paper that comes with this particular brand, if you have never seen it before.

Let's start by cutting a piece of plastic 7 1/2" wide and 18" long. It's hard to see, so I put a piece of tear away under it.

Find the center of each 7 1/2" side, which is going to be the top of our bag when complete. Mark it, as best you can. I used a pen. You don't want to use a pin, or you will have a hole in the plastic. You are going to take a 3" piece of ribbon, fold it in half and stitch it to that center mark on each end. These will be our tabs for opening our bag when it's complete.

Now, we are going to cut 2,   1 1/4" wide pieces of fabric for binding, the tops of our bag. Fold it over 1/4" and press.

 Flip your bag over, so the ribbon we just attached is on the bottom and stitch your binding down on each end. Your just folded and pressed side is at the bottom. Placing the tear away stabilizer underneath, will keep the plastic from sticking to the bed of the machine.

Rip off the tear away, flip over your binding and stitch it down to the front side. You will be putting the tear away under you foot for this step, again. Just "butt" it up to your binding so the plastic is covered and doesn't drag on your machine foot. When complete we will just tear it off again.

Here we are going to attach a 7 1/4" piece of Velcro to each end, "butting" it up to the binding we just attached. By using this measurement, it just catches in the side seam and holds, but doesn't add too much bulk in the seam. Make sure your ribbon side is face down and the ribbon is pulled up and out of the way before you stitch the Velcro down. Hook side on one end and loop side on the other.

Almost to the finish line here. We are now going to fold our bag in half, sticking the Velcro together, forming our bag. Cut a 2" wide piece fabric for the binding. Measure carefully the length you will need for each side allowing a little extra to press under at the top and bottom of each piece. We are going to attach it just like we were binding a quilt.

                                                       This is what my bag looked like, before I pulled the tear away off. I am going to flip my bag over one last time and stitch the binding down.

VIOLA!! "Orange" you surprised at how easy that was?  This one is the size of a quart ziploc bag, but I of course, don't need to tell you, this can be done in any number of sizes, to fit our stitching needs. "Citrus" to say - oops I mean suffice to say, I am now organized and I can "see" what I need, for my next project!   

Hop on over to MooseStashQuilting, become a follower if your not already. Leave a comment on my blog, as I will be sending a set of  bags to one lucky person! I'll be picking a winner on the 6th so don't delay! Hope to see you there...PS: Thank you sooooooo much "M" Samm for having me back. I am thrilled to be a part of this "great" time on Stash Manicure!

Thank you Joan...of course that your bags were made in orange
is an absolute surprise wink... no really she had done this before
she knew of the color of our campaign
YES another serendipity moment!
Great tut....btw!

Todays GIVEAWAY #3
is for WANTOBE QUILTERS
This is what you will win...
THE top 3 rulers from

All the links to all the rulers are on the side bar under
Creative Grid. It will take you to each page and give you
a description ...

 ON a personal note this company Creative Grid...
is by far the most amazing, detailed, quick service.
get what you ask for company I have had to deal with..
And that means sew much to me...
They always answered my calls, they were funny..
I like that a lot and the President also owns
Checker Distributors..Did you know that?
NOW if I had stamp of MADAME SAMM APPROVED
they would get it...

 click to enlarge images..

 All 3 of these top 3 rulers can be found on the side

bar under Creative Grid....

( ahhh the hydrangeas, stay in my garden, sorry) 

And this Lazy Angle ruler is for our

Blog Sponsor...SEE, when your Wantobe Quilter

Wins, the blog sponsor does too..

That is someone who does blog post updates,

has a button on their blog ...yes YOU! 

Joan from Lazy Girl Designs..
 even has a how to on her blog
( she is the designer of this ruler for Creative Grid)
The winner will also be wining a couple of her purse patterns too!
( this for sponsor only)  She is an amazing lady too...
She would also get my stamp..

Want to WIN these? 
( don't be like me and have ohhhh far too many that don't do what these do
and that is stick on your fabric..no sliding here...
I don't even have these 4...)


Sew here is what you do...
Follow us here on Stash Manicure......tell us you are...( we check wink)
Please follow JOAN. .because she went to a lot of time to
give us another delicious tut...
and please tell us you are a WANTOBE Quilter..

Now the Quilters can still leave comments...
sew please tell us you are a quilter.
( sew at least we will know)


That is it for me today...
wink...

p.s winner announced tomorrow morning..!