Welcome to day twelve of the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild blog hop for the EZ Dresden Challenge. Have you been following this?
The Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild has partnered with EZ Quilting, Simplicity and a host of other manufacturers to celebrate Darlene Zimmerman’s 20th Anniversary designing quilting tools for EZ Quilting. To help them celebrate, Salt Lake MQG is hosting a challenge — Use the EZ Dresden Ruler to create a project, then enter it to win amazing prizes, including a new sewing machine and a photo of your project in a 1/3 page Simplicity advertisement in Quilting Arts Magazine. How exciting is that?! Leave a comment, and you could win one of these awesome rulers. I will announce the winner in a week, on the 19th of June. For more information regarding this challenge, follow this EZ Dresden Challenge link.
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For the past few summers, I’ve wanted to make myself a really bright, yet simple beach bag.
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Colorful umbrellas, beach balls, and sailboats were my inspiration.
I also knew that I wanted the bag to be deep, to hold rolled towels, and the bag had to have a nice zipper pocket to hold smaller-hard-to-find items like chapstick. I’m really happy with the results. I can’t wait for our first beach/pool outing, as I think this bag will be perfect and fun in the sun.
.Here’s what my project looked like, right before I turned it into a bag. I was intentional about picking a bold fabric for the background, as I wanted the sun to play on the dresden pieces, making the background shine through.
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The collage of images below, show some of my work. Really, it was quite simple. I basically laid the pieces out, put right sides together, sewed, ironed the seam allowances open, and repeated until I had one long, snake-like piece. I’m not a fan of raw edges, so to finish the piece off I sewed around it with a 1/4″ stitch, and then used this stitch as a guide to help me iron a 1/4″ under around all the sides. I then used washable basting glue and lightly glued the dresden piece down before using a zigzag stitch (clear thread) to sew around the entire exterior. Lastly, I basted and quilted the piece.
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Here is the finished product. I really like how the chevron print shines through.
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Remember, leave a comment, and you could win one of these awesome rulers. I will announce the winner in a week, on the 19th of June.
For more inspiration and ideas for the EZ Dresden Challenge, follow along with the blog hop:
- June 1: Salt Lake MQG: Kick Off
- June 2: Lee from Freshly Pieced
- June 3: Kati at from the blue chair
- June 4: Victoria from Bumble Beans Inc, Tanya from Squares and Triangles
- June 5: Val from How About Pink Please, Leigh from Leedle Deedle Quilts
- June 6: Amy from Amy’s Creative Side, Elisa from Stitch Outside the Ditch
- June 7: Katie from Swim Bike Quilt, Emily from Em’s Scrapbag
- June 8: Melissa from Happy Quilting Melissa, Brooke from Pitter Putter
- June 9: Nicole from Mama Love Quilts, Amy from Don’t You Know Who I Am
- June 10: Elizabeth from Don’t Call Me Betsy, Colleen from The Busy Bean
- June 11: Faith from Fresh Lemons Quilts, Deonn from Quiltscapes Quilting
- June 12: Angela from The Artists’ House, Barbie from The Quilting Mill
- June 13: Amy from Diary of a Quilter
- June 14: Jessica from Sew Crafty Jess
- June 15: Salt Lake MQG: Wrap-up
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Our lucky winner is #9, Jenny C
Love your bag! Have fun in the sun!
Thanks for your comment Jenny. I hope you love the ruler! I can’t wait to see what you create with it!
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What a fun twist on the Dresden plate! This is one project I need to do for myself! Thanks for sharing your great idea.
fun idea, wish
i could buy some of that black chevron too
I have really enjoyed you sharing your idea! If only the sun would come out so we could enjoy the beach! Thanks for a chance to win
hi! Nice to meet you, a fellow Utahn!
What a fun bag! Now that I’m a mom and a quilter, I’ve found that I need lots of bags, so this would be a great project! Thanks for a great idea and a chance to win this cool ruler!
I love making bags…thanks for sharing your beach bag project and for the great giveaway!!
Wow, that bag is gorgeous! I love anything rainbow and this takes it one awesome step further. Thanks for sharing!
what a fun & fabulous idea!!! I love it!
What a great tote, and the chevrons showing through are just GREAT!
What a great tote! I don’t need any more bags but maybe I do need a dresden bag…
Love your bag! Thanks for the giveaway!
What a cool way to turn out the Dresden Plate. Thanks for sharing.
I love the colors you picked! Nothing is better than black & white with bright colors. I can’t wait to put my ideas to use with this ruler.
Well, that was a bit confusing… I put a comment for your beach bag in the wrong post. So, I have to tell you that your beach bag is awesome, thanks for sharing a great idea… and I’d still like you to toss my name in the hat for one of those rulers!!
I love your bag! Very colorful!
I’m so impressed to see all the different ways this ruler can be used. Thanks for participating in the tour.
I would sooo love to make some of these projects on this blog tour. They are AMAZING!! Thanks for the chance to win
Super cute and functional!
very cute beach bag. thanks for chance to win
WONDERFUL beach bag! Love it! Thank you for participating in the blog hop. It’s been fun to see how everyone used their dresdens.
Awesome bag!! Love it! Thanks for a chance to win a ruler!
A huge thank you Angela – I love my ruler! 4 Dresden projects almost finished!
All the best for the competition.
Wow! That is an awesome bag…..thanks for sharing the tutorial!
Angela – I have started blogging about my work. Find me at http://fiberlosophy.blogspot.com/?m=1
I have another wedge quilt in planning – I hope to make a start on it in the new year. I do love my ruler. Thank you.