Island Batik Ambassador October Challenge

What’s in Your Bag Challenge? Featuring ByAnnie.com

Our challenge this month allowed us to choose a byannie.com pattern and Island Batik fabric and complete the bag and post about it any day in October. Byannie.com supplied the pattern and supplies, including hardware, to make the bag. Island Batik supplied the fabric of our choice from either the Spring or Summer ’24 collections.

I chose the In Control Bag. My goal was to replace the 3 mugs full of notions that sit on my sewing table, often being knocked off the back of my table landing in the abyss behind my tall trash can. Let’s just say I no longer enjoy getting on my hands and knees nor getting up from that position. The In Control Bag held great promise for controlling my chaos.

I chose these three fabrics from the Summer ’24 Flutter Fields collection.

You can find this collection at these shops:

Creekside Quilts-OR

Fabric Square-OH

JellyRollFabric.Net

Middlebury Sew & Vac

Creekside Quilts-OR

Fabric Square-OH

Here is the entire Flutter Fields collection:

I decided to use # 712401075 for the front and #712404083 for the back and #712407810 for the accent.

I loaded the front and back on my Handi Quilter Forte (Amara 24) longarm using Soft and Stable provided by ByAnnie.com for the batting using a narrow horizontal straight line quilt pattern.

I first made all the pieces according to the well written directions. Byannie even prints check boxes for you to check off each step as you go as well as a sheet with the numbers of the pieces to pin to each piece to keep everything organized. There are even video instructions for many of the steps.

I love how professional the bags look when complete. The directions provide steps that lead to a very nicely finished bag. The piece next to the pattern is the stabilizer for the bottom of the bag.

I love all the pockets!

Pockets on the inside, outside, and ends!!

One zippered pocket!

Here are my three mugs with notions that I was referring to earlier that continually get knocked off behind my sewing table. My hope was that they all would fit, be easier to access, and be less likely to be knocked off.

…and it all fit easily! I just used the inside pockets and still have the center part available as well as all the outside pockets!! I’m so please with how it turned out. It will definitely be less likely to be knocked off because of the larger base and it feels so much more organized.

Thank you to Island Batik and their Industry partners, for supplying me with products to use for these monthly challenges. These include but may not be limited to Island Batik, Aurifil Thread, Hobbs Batting, Schmetz Needles, Oliso Iron, Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Rulers, ByAnnie patterns, and Funky Friends Factory patterns.

Check out what the other Ambassadors made for their What’s in Your Bag Challenge:

Brenda Alburl ~ Songbird Designs

Renee Atkinson ~ Pink Tulip Quilting

Megan Best ~ BestQuilter

Pamela Boatright ~ PamelaQuilts

Susan Deshensky ~ Lady Blue Quilts Studio

Brittany Fisher ~ Bobbin with Brittany

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts

Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for quilts

Jane Hauprich ~ Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting

Kim Jamieson-Hirst ~ Chatterbox Quilts

Victoria Johnson ~ Forever Quilting for You

Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Connie Kresin Campbell ~ Freemotion by the River

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood

Denise Looney ~ A Quiltery

Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights

Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack Made Mine

Lisa Pickering ~ Lisa’s Quilting Passion

Sarah Pitcher ~ Pitcher’s Boutique

Lana Russel ~ Lana Quilts

Julia Schweri ~ Inflorescence Designs

Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail

Carol Stanek ~ Stitch with Color

Sandra Starley ~ Textile Time Travels

Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations

Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt