Tropical Puzzle and More Project Bags

This is or was one of my USOs—UnStarted Objects, a set of fat quarters with the pattern included, that I picked up for a great price at Craftsy several years back. They sure had some amazing deals didn’t they? Between making a few more project bags for my returning bag-obsessed customer (I’m totally okay with this--love her--as I’ve now made one for the shop and have plans to make one for myself)  I have the flimsy finished. 

Spot the Rottie body photo-bombing! I could’ve cropped it, but he’s too cute. 

I don’t have a destination for this yet but I do have a backing fabric. Therefore it will get quilted shortly so it doesn’t become a UFO. I tend not to have a ‘waiting to be quilted’ pile.

Here is where it started. So pretty and organized. However. I think the cutting directions could have specified number of pieces per block because she did indicate "four extra" for all the cutting which seemed so wasteful to me, so I tried to figure it out, but well, let's say I ended up with extras and also had to cut the odd piece here and there after all!

Here's one of the first blocks I made, as posted to Instagram. I took oh, three tries to get the orientation right of the parts!

Once I wrapped my head around that, it was off to the races, placing the blocks up on the design wall at random.

And the flimsy inside shot.

And the bags that interrupted the assembly of this quilt? Lana requested two more project bags for her knitting projects in the bigger sizes she had previously asked me to make her.

This one is 12" wide x 8" tall.

And this one is 12" wide x 10" tall.

I'd forgotten about his beautiful batik fabric I'd picked up a few years ago at Connecting Threads. I gave her a few choices of light blues, but as I said to her afterwards, if I were a betting woman, I'd have picked this one. She and I have similar tastes!

A light lining

It's more efficient to make two at a time, so before I had started her blue one, I had cut a lot of yellow squares, laying them out, and then letting her substitute where she wanted. Well, I couldn't stuff all of those yellow squares back into the tray, so I made a second yellow project bag that has a few different fabrics, some she'd rejected, other fabrics/scraps I'd found and added. Once I get some 'in action' shots, I'll list this in my Etsy shop as a project bag, though it could very well work as a larger makeup/toiletries bag.

I had used this True Colours by Jenean Morrison for Free Spirit Westminster Fibres buttons fabric in purple for her previously made large purple bag I'd made her, and I remembered I had it in yellow too so that's what went into both yellow project bags for the lining. The half yard is all gone now but for a 2.5" strip!