Project QUILTING Challenge 11.3 - finish!!

I must be feeling better because I knocked this out!!  No pattern, just winging it!  Yes, I had to use my seam ripper a few times...sigh.  But it was fun and it's done!!

I only used scraps for this...starting with HSTs to make the heart, then I played with a log cabin block with thin ORANGE!! and thicker greens.  Embracing the orange, right?  The HSTs were from the Mystery QAL that Kim of Persimmon Dreams had right after Christmas.  The greens were from the Bush Fire Tree blocks.  The wide orange was from the tummy time quilts I made this summer.

I even used scraps of batting!

I used fusible fleece, so my only concern was making sure I kept the sides with the glue in the same direction.  I would not have been happy to have pressed the fleece to my wool pressing mat!!

When the fleece was pressed to my blocks - the blocks measured 8.5" - I then quilted them together and didn't have to pin anything.

Easy part, finished.  Putting on the zipper was a challenge!!  Nothing like putting a zipper in the dresses I used to make, that's for sure!!!  Does anyone know what a zipper foot looks like for a Janome?  None of my feet look anything like the old zipper foot I used on my mom's old Singer!

Had to rip it out, unless I wanted the lining of the bag to be the outside!!

I used the clips to hold the zipper and the front of the bag together, then laid the whole thing on the lining and pinned it together.

Now the fun began...I sewed the outside of the bag together, but didn't have the ends of the zipper in the right place!!  I'm not even sure where I should have put them, so I ripped out enough of the side seams to get them in the right place and sewed the seams back up.  Then I sewed the lining together...all the way around (dumb) and had to rip out a bit of the bottom so I could turn the darn thing right side out!!  I just pressed the seam and stitched the hole closed when I had it turned right side out.

Cute on both sides AND the zipper closes!!  I'll take that as a win and now I have a place to store my extra zippers...but I'll have to find a video that talks me through the zipper process in the future!!  EDITED:  This is the tutorial I'll use next time I make a zippered bag - Color Girl has a great looking bag!!

I'm linking up with Kim of Persimmon Dreams for a finish of Project QUILTING Challenge 11.3!!