ROADRUNNER...BEEP BEEP!

I finally finished this Patchwork duffle bag!

ROADRUNNER STYLE!

I love it. 😍 

I did NOT want a patchwork bag and this large

Charley Harper Roadrunner Fabric was perfect!

I had enough  black cork for the bottom section of the bag.

I like to think outside the box..or the bag in this case. 

My Mom loved to run the roads and

‘Roadrunner’ was her nickname.

This is year Mom has been running the roads in heaven, 18 years!

I know she would love this bag and very happy that I continue 

her ‘road running’ tradition.

What she wouldn’t like is that when I run the roads 

perhaps, not home by dark’ 

Sew, here is the exterior bag…and I used soft and stable for the interfacing. 

Each side of the bag will look like this.

Charley Harper at tops of exterior sides and the 

Black Cork makes a nice bottom for the duffle!

These are bag the end pieces with cork making the pockets.

I had to piece the cork from scraps..but looks ok to me. 

Layer the exterior, soft and stable and LINING before quilting. 

I was thinking separate lining (as with most bags I make)

and didn’t do that.

Later, I fixed the mistake on all the pieces. 

I had pieces and parts ready but stalled. 

This bag was my nemesis.  

I did find the fun ‘ready made strap’ at QuiltCon.

I wasn’t thinking of this bag when I bought it

But apparently my sub-liminal mind was! 

BEFORE  I could put on the outside handles, 

I fixed my quilting mistake.

Put the lining behind the finished quilted pieces and 

quilted again, over the quilted lines. 

 Then I made tubing for the polystrpping.

That was a pain but straps look good on the bag.

Sewing the sides to the bag was extremely tedious!

And adding a bias binding to cover these seams

 INSANE! 

Finally finished!