Tag: bags

Quilting & Sewing

ByAnnie Case in Point

Anne S

I decided to make another ByAnnie bag straightaway after finishing my Take a Stand bag – I figure the more I do in a short space of time, the more confident I’ll feel and the lessons learned will stick in my pea brain a bit longer 😉 Truth is I’m super proud of this one, and it’s already stuffed full of crochet supplies ready to be taken to our monthly crochet social gatherings that have started at our local Women’s Shed. After spending 7-8 years being too intimidated to make these bags it feels amazing to finally see them come to fruition. And this fabric choice just makes me supremely happy!

Quilting & Sewing

ByAnnie Take a Stand

Anne S

I managed to make a Take a Stand bag to match my Running With Scissors one, and I’m pretty thrilled with it. I chose navy zips this time around and I much prefer it in comparison to my Running With Scissors. I learn something more with every bag that I make, and slowly getting a bit more confident.

I’m also getting more comfortable in making fabric choices etc as well, and in this case make a change to the pattern by adding extra D-rings so that if I decide to have shorter carry handles in the future I can add them really easily.

Challenges & SALs, Finishes, Mill Hill, Sewing, WIPocalypse

WIPocalypse – July 2026

Anne S

No stitching completed this month as I’ve been doing a daily ‘Christmas in July’ cardmaking challenge as well as completing a few beginners watercolour challenges. I did have a VERY big sewing finish, though, this month that I’m super proud of, and that’s the Catch All Caddy by ByAnnie. It was my goal this year to build up my confidence enough to attempt one of the bigger ByAnnie patterns, and I’m so happy I met that goal thanks to a sew-along on Facebook. I do have to admit to giving in on the final piece of binding and ended up unpicking it and stitching it on by hand, but hopefully if I do more of these types of projects I’ll get better at sewing them on by machine.

Stitching question

What is your comfort zone regarding the number of projects to have kitted and in progress at any one time?

Honestly I don’t think I have a limit – I regularly kit and unkit projects on a whim, and just have tubs in my Kallax unit dedicated to kitted up projects sorted into sizes. I find if I have a project kitted up ready to go (or at least have the fabric selected/cut out) then I can start something whenever I get the urge. Kitting up, for me, takes all the fun out of new starts, and it often has me spinning my wheels and not stitching for a few days/weeks because I can’t get past the kitting up part of the process. If I get the urge to organise or kit things up I make the most of it, and don’t worry about the number of projects that entails.

Sewing, Tilda

Windy Walk Project Bag

Anne S

I’m excited that I’ve managed to start and finish another old kit project from Kitty Rose Cottage. These Little Boxes of Creativity offer a great variety of projects in Tilda fabrics, and really worthwhile – the only reason I cancelled is because I was amassing too many kits during a time I wasn’t sewing anymore. It’s great that I’m finally finding the time and motivation to work through them.

This was the “Windy Walk project bag” kit, and my first attempt at doing hand quilting – my goodness, I have so much empathy for those who hand stitch full quilts, it’s very time consuming, although rewarding at the end. It was great to try this technique out on a smaller scale before committing to a quilt.

I’m not a huge fan of pink fabrics, and I loved that Dawn sent enough squares in the kit that I could leave out the squares that were predominantly pink. I’ve always loved the red fabric with teal flowers in this range, and I think the teal and red colours help to offset the pink so it’s less prominent (also really happy that the lining in the kit was teal, so that helped me to embrace it haha). I’m super thrilled overall with this finish – and super chuffed with myself that I’m getting back into sewing again!