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A bag for a good friend -the flowers are die cut from felt and I digitised the leafy wreath to go beneath them. The flowers are added as the last part of the design. The upholstery fabric I used to make the bag didn't play nicely with my sewing machine.
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Lucky friend. I just love this bag - my colours. Beautifully made and assembled.
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Great combination and it's all come together so beautifully. Well done, love Chris
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Looks like a strong bag no wonder you had trouble with the machine.
Worth the effort though it looks great.
Worth the effort though it looks great.
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sandralane
25 Oct 2016
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Sue, you have done a fantastic job with this bag, love the flowers. Nice touch they look great. Sandra.
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greysewist
25 Oct 2016
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The bag looks great, Sue. Was your machine skipping stitches no matter what you tried? I was using a fabric like that earlier this year and tried 3 different machines to make it work. Even the sailmaker machine didn't want a bar of it. I did eventually finish the bag I was also making and I sent some scraps of the fabric to a sewing friend interstate as she does love a challenge. She got along fine with it, using, I think, something like a size 12 needle, whereas I'd started with way bigger needle and kept going larger. As the fabric was really dense, my needles were probably bouncing right off it instead of piercing it as well as was needed. There's a lesson everywhere!
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The fabric isn't particularly dense, but multiple thicknesses in places made it really difficult to keep topstitching straight. It embroidered really well!
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Looks great Sue. Sometimes upholstery fabric is simply to heavy and dense for our machines. Told one of my daughters that very thing today . sometimes you need one of those commercial power machines like I use to use when I worked in a sewing plant making Levi jeans.
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The fabric is really nice - mostly wool, but it springs back after pressing and I had trouble with the thickness in places.
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grossfamilie
26 Oct 2016
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Oh , that's truely marvellous. Looks like it is worth to buy that special die cut equipment. Thanks for sharing - Maria
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Looks absolute excellent very stunning beautiful flowers is nice
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This is really nice... I like it a lot... so pretty. You've done a wonderful job. Keep up the good work.
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