@Kim_Kirwan was asking about the bag I sewed up last weekend so I thought it’d be fun to post here.
It’s a Monk Bag - one of my favorite patterns because it sews up really quick and you can feature an amazing fabric you love. I’ve had one I used for years and when my oldest kiddo wanted to make her own it got me on a new kick for them.
Fabric:
4 each 9x14" panels
4 each 6.5x34" panels
Extra bits for interior pockets if you want.
I need a new headset bag I can throw around when I’m flying so I had a VFR Sectional Chart printed up at spoonflower (All Fabric Types | Spoonflower) - a website that lets you print anything on fabric! I downloaded the PDF chart from the FAA, converted it to a jpg at the scale I wanted with GIMP (open source software). Then uploaded the design and ordered it on a fat quarter of their “lightweight cotton twill” - 29"x18", $15 + $7 shipping. A yard of that fabric is $29. So it’s not totally breaking the bank but I am a very frugal person and $29/yard is expensive on my craft budget scale (as opposed to my airplane renting scale… but let’s not distract). They have other fabrics, their cheapest is $20/yard. But the printing is great, you can iron it, wash it, it holds up really well.
Anyway the cool thing about the monk bag is that you only need two 9x14" panels of your “cool” fabric, and everything else can come from the all-you-can-eat-buffet that is MakeICT Scraps!
I can’t find an exact tutorial of the way I make it but there are some online. You can probably figure out how to make it just by seeing it. I hate topstitching so I do a lot more inside out and flipping than some tutorials I see. To each their own.
