Welcome to Week 16 of the One Yard Wonders Sew Along!
Week 16 – Project 38
School Binder – designed by Charlene Caruso page 106
Diana selected 3 fabrics for the Binder Cover. Aneela Hoey Sherbet Pips Girl In A Tree Swing Pink Lemonade, Puppy Dog Tails Cotton Candy Blue, and Play Dot Pink Grey.
Highlights of Materials Needed:
2 yards of fusible interfacing
Diana’s Tips and Thoughts
- What a happy fabric for such a fun project! Even the names of the Sherbet Pips are so fun!
- When adding 1/2 inch for seam allowances on all 4 sides, be sure to add the extra 1/2 inch to the width.
- Diana loved making the binder. The pattern was well written and easy to follow.
The Pips binder will be going to school with Lexi, Diana’s teen-aged daughter. Another binder is in the works for all Diana’s downloadable pattern pages.
Week 16 – Project 39
Quilted Lunch Bag– designed by Mary Richmond page 108
Melissa chose 2 fabrics. MoMo Just Wing Flowers Turquoise and Just Wing It Minis Tomato.
Highlights of Materials Needed:
3/4 yard of insulated batting, cut to 22″ x 36″
1 package of 3/4″ double fold bias tape
3″ of sew-on Velcro
1 decorative button
Quilter’s safety pins
Sewing machine walking foot (optional)
Encase one wide (top) edge. . . From the top, mark the body piece as shown along both long sides at 10” and again at 14 1/2”. . . attaching the side pieces.
With wrong sides together. . . Pin in place and stitch to the 10” mark. . . Do the same with the second side piece.
Melissa’s Tips and Thoughts
- The finished product is beautiful.
- Melissa felt the lunch bag was not as easy as it looked. She found the binding to be challenging because of the bulk. (This may vary from machine to machine.)
- She quilted the bag pieces after she cut them so she could do the applique.
- The bag body was made 1 inch longer to give more length to the flap.
- She would not recommend a directional fabric, the print would be upside down on the back.
- The size of the bag was bigger than expected, a wonderful surprise.
- Melissa made her own seam binding from a contrasting fabric. A third fabric could be used for the inside.
This pocket is a fun part of the lunch bag that was not pictured in the One Yard Wonders book. Melissa’s addition of the fork and spoon are so cute! A pop of red rick rack provided by the Ribbon Jar.
The perfect personal touch, an applique inspired by a vintage sign.
How to participate: One Yard Wonders Sew Along Details
That is probably the cutest binder I have ever seen!
Really love both of these projects. I am planning to make the binder cover for my new fabric swatch book. The lunch bag turned out very cute and I love the applique!
I really liked the fabric used for the binder. Makes me think of my daughter and how much she loves her swing. Both projects turned out nice!
I love the applique on the lunch bag. It really looks great. Thank you for all the wonderful sewing tips. The lunch bag was my first published pattern and your tips will make it easier for people sewing the bag.
These are both so cute! I love the use of fabric on the binder, and that line is perfect for school
Oh my Gosh!!! How sweet that binder is! The lunch bag is so chic’ . I loved that tomato and turquoise fabric and It was a Perfect fit for that bag. Love love love it.
I especially love the binder! Very fun!
I’m so making one of those binders now! Thanks for the inspiration.
LOVE that binder cover! What a fun idea. I have so many different binders for different things. How fun would it be to look up on the shelf and easily be able to pick out the gardening one from the cookbook one from the sewing one – just based on what fabric was on it. Gotta make some of these!!!
Great idea Judi!
Perfect! I’ve just been dying to use this fabric:
http://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37_50_313&products_id=4816
But I haven’t figured out what to use it for! It’s so beautiful, but I’ve always been at a loss.
Such an amazing idea, Judi! I love it!
I have a question! Do you think that laminated fabrics would work for the binder cover?
Yes, Jennifer, I think the laminate would work beautifully. I would add maybe 1/4 inch of extra fabric to the width and height to allow for the bulkier fabric.
darling results this week!
Love the sherbet pips binder cover – there are so many nice pockets too!
I love how the binder came out. It looks so cute.
So well done, both projects are wonderful!!!
Happy Easter to everyone at Pink Chalk.
i LOVE the binder cover!! SOOO cute!
Both projects are equally stunning!
You are all so talented and skilled at putting together fabulous fabric combinations. Such fun to see . . .
Love the projects they made, beautifully done.
I need to try some small items, to practice making bags and items.
Love the fun fabrics, they are great for projects like this.
Debbie
LOVE the fabrics for these projects!
These are so adorable. I just truly love the lunch bag. The laptop case is so cute. I have this book, and I am inspired to make the laptop case. I need one tomorrow for a party.
These turned out really cute!
I love that you are running through this whole book. This is my go to book when i need gift ideas, and all of your posts are reminding me of projects that I would have otherwise skipped over! Right now i feel like i desperately need a sherbet pips binder!!
These projects turned out amazing. Love the binder cover!
That lunch bag looks like a good project to make several for Christmas for my teacher friends!
Just love the binder in Sherbet Pips – I think I need to make one of those for me!
I love love love the sandwich bag!
So cute!
The sherbert pips fabric is just so cute!!!
Lovely projects! Sandy.
That sherbert pips fabric is so cute!:)
Great projects, too! Sandy.
the lunch bag is adorable! She did an excellent job. So very cute, & earth friendly to boot! A great project for Earth Week!
Oh I love the Sherbet Pips collection and to put it on a notebook cover is just perfect! I have to make one for my granddaughter using the Sherbet Pips collection.
The binder is truly wonderful!
These are both wonderful. The sherbet pips fabric is adorable.
I love the lunch bag and its colors combination is awesome!
The binder turned out even cuter than I imagined and that lunch bag is so sweet!
both quite lovely!
Sherbet Pips is a great fabric choice for the School Binder.
I love the lunch bag and the binder. I would be more likely to try making the lunch bag first just cause that seems… easier? Although maybe it might not be… hard to say.
Love, love, love both of these! What great fabrics and, wow, I can’t believe how neat that lunch bag turned out! Very cool. Can’t wait to try both of those patterns.
Both of these tuned out so cute! I love seeing how these fabrics can be turned into so many different things, and all of it so pretty!
Love both of these! Thanks so much for your personal notes on making these and all of the projects in the book. So helpful!
Such cute things, and great fabric choices!
Both cute projects and the fabrics I just love.
Both of these projects are quite cute. I just bought myself a binder for my pdf patterns and can’t wait to dress it up.
Love the binder! but the Lunch Bag is my absolute Favorite!!! Would pack lunch every day!! LOL
Hugs!
what a darling quilted lunch bag! i’m crazy about the red/aqua combo, and the details are absolute perfection.
Love the binder in this fabric!!
AAAAaaah! Unbearable cuteness! Those projects turned out so beautifully!!! I want to make one of those binders myself now!
Both projects are really cute and the fabric selections were perfect! I plan on making both items.
Love this lunch bag and in my fav color combo!
Wow, I really need to get this book and follow along!