bags bags bags!

I love bags. Quite addicted really. I've started to look at bags in stores to see how they were sewn and have realized that it isn't as hard as it looks. Not that all of mine have been wow, but I'm learning. I found a great link to a bag tutorial and I've used and modified it for a few bags I've made. Here's what I've done so far:

Christmas bags - I made a bunch of these for the nieces and nephews one year on Julio's side which were filled with little gifts, as our main gift was some farm animals for World Vision. I had a lot of fun choosing this fabric and designing these!

This is a diaper bag I made out of leftover material from my big picnic blanket. I've used it a lot, but in the end it just always looks like a picnic blanket to me. It's very sturdy and useful though.

This is a diaper bag I made for a good friend of mine who had a baby a few months ago. I was all set to make her little one a blanket until I heard that her mother-in-law had sewn a ton of blankets already for her. So that inspired me to be a bit more creative and I'm so glad! It was fun to pick out this fabric too, although in hindsight I think I could've left out the peach and made the front and back look the same.

(front)

(front with small bag for diapers and wipes)(back)

This is a little shoulder bag, mostly done according to the bag in the link above but I tried something a little different...in the end, well, let's just say it was an experiment and I learned from it! There's something about it that doesn't quite work in my mind, but I had leftover's from the above diaper bag and just had to use it somehow.

After making the diaper bag for my friend, I wanted a new one too, to replace the jean squares one and this is what I came up with. I've been really happy with it.

And this is my current diaper bag. It was originally just going to be a beach bag but I love how functional it is, complete with a little cell phone pocket so I always know where to look when the phone rings, so this is my top pick for now!

(larger pocket with flower cell phone pocket - if you look closely on the inside you can see where Luke drew with blue chalk...)

This is a little bag I made one time out of leftover material. It was really easy to make and I've used it quite a bit as well. As you can tell, with my current family situation though, the diaper type bags are getting priority!