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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I love your bag! So bright and vibrant! Perfect for the beach! Thanks for the giveaway!
Awesome awesome bag! I’ve got to get one of those rulers!
OH, WOW! Is that ever clever, cute, bright and functional! What vision you have. It has been so much fun to visit everyone during this blog hop and see all of the fantabulous ideas! Well done!
What a great idea. I love the colours you have used
Fabulous bag! The combination of the bright solids and the black and white chevron is genius.
Yours is the coolest bag ever! great job and thanks for the inspiration!
Your color choices really make the bag pop. Thanks for the chance to win.
I think your bag is lovely, thank you for sharing.
Love your bag! Have fun in the sun!
Oh, I love the colors on your bag! And the background fabric is so great with it!
I love your rainbow of color offset by the chevron. So fun!
I love your bag!!! Two thumbs up!
So far, I don’t see one comment that speaks to thw weather! Let me turn the Conga Line that direction. Here in Colorado on this 12th day of June I am drinking my morning coffee, wrapped in a soft worn quilt of grays and blues, my Scotty dog stretched out over my right thigh, and a crisp sunlit vision of Pikes Peak filling the window on my left. It is a purely glorious summer morning on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Considering that three days ago hail the size of ice cubes ripped our trees of most spring leaves, the weather here in Colorado is something of a movable feast.
Your beach bag reminds me of my native home, Santa Barbara, CA. I love the whimsy of your wandering colors. Send those rulers to me! I want to play.
I like it! Love those bright sunshine colors. Perfect for a beach bag.
I absolutely love your bag! Fun!
Love the bright colors and layout of your dresden project! Thanks for a chance to win.
I really liked how you created this bag with the dresden ruler…the black really make the colors pop…
The rainbow colors really pop with the black and white. Excellent job!
Great bag! I love the way you’ve used the dresdens!
What a great project! Now I’m itching to make something rainbow on black and white.
An artist marries an artist!!! Love this bag but it truly is much too pretty to take to the beach. Let’s just hand it on the wall!
I love your beach bag. It is very bright and “happy”
What a great bag and the chevron print was an outstanding choice!
Oh, I love the look of the traveling rainbow over the chevrons, great project! And congratulations on being accepted as one of the contributors to Craft Lake City’s “Temporary Museum of Permanent Change” next month – can’t wait to see your cool quilt!
Is GOL a term? Because I was literally Gasping Out Loud when I saw your bag. I mean, WOW!!! the solid dresden pieces with the graphic black and white zigzag fabric!?! be still my heart. amazing work, seriously, well done.
thanks for the giveaway and inspiration.
Great job on the bag. I love the graphic boldness.
Love Love Love the chevrons with the dresdens!!!!
So graphic and bold, love it!
What a great bag! Love the idea! thanks!!!
Wow. This is just AMAZING!!! You may need to put an alarm on that gorgeous bag to stop people from wanting to take that from you on the beach. lol Beautiful job.
Wow! Let me look again. Wow! I truly love your fabric choices….bright and colorful, and full of fun! Now, that is a beach bag!!
Thanks for the chance to win the fabulous ruler!
That bag is so cute! I love it! Definitely hoping to win one of the rulers so I can make one. Thanks for the chance.
Your bag is so cool ! The colors do play well with the chevron print. Thanks for the inspiration!
Very nice bag with bride colours. I love it.
How cute is your bag! So cheery and bright. Thanks for the chance to win the ruler.
I’m at the beach ALL the time b/c my daughter surfs. I was there this morning zipped all the way up past my chin with my hoodied tied tight around my head. It was freezing in So. Cal. (:
The rainbow of color and chevrons are great looking on your beach bag. Thanks for the giveaway of the ez dresden ruler.
Nice bag and those fabrics are also great! Good idea to make this colorful bag instead of a quilt!
Greetings from the Netherlands where the weather is not OK for the beach right now
Marina Fluit
Great use of dresdies for a cool bag!
Adorable! What a perfect beach bag! I love the colors, such a great project!!!
great beach bag, a great bag for any other pupose, too. the dresden path is gorgeous against the b&w zigzag. thanx for showing it off and for the chance to win a dresden ruler.
The bag is bright and beautiful. It reminds me of the bag we used as a family when I was a kid. It held towels, sunscreen and flip flops! Thanks for sharing a piece of sunshine with us.
Barb@Witsend
I love your bag, the colors and background are fabulous together. Now I just need to win one of these rulers so I can make one!
Wow that is bright and gorgeous and perfect for the beach.
Thank you for a super tutorial.
The colors are great! I really love what you did with your bag, thanks for sharing!
I love the snake idea/design-thank you for the offer-Jude
That is an awesome bag. I love the bright colors.
What a great bag! I love the fabric choices and design together!!!
Thanks for the chance to win a ruler. I am excited to try my hand at a dresden project. I like the beach bag idea, thank you for sharing.
Michelle
Love this bag! So fun to sees ll the great ideas to use this ruler.