Keep your latest makes and supplies safely stored in one place with this pretty tote. Made up in Sara Lawson for Art Gallery Fabrics’ bold Jungle Avenue prints, it will add a pop of colour to your craft room. It’s also stylish enough to take to your sewing group or a workshop.
Make a Storage Bag
Cut six 10cm squares from each of eight fabrics, leaving the ninth print to one side for the base and trim. Stitch the squares together into two panels three by three and two panels three by five. Press and pin to wadding that’s been trimmed to the same size.
Quilt in the ditch and over the squares diagonally with white thread to fix the wadding to the fabric. To make the base, cut a 29cm x 47cm piece of the fabric set aside. Pin onto wadding and quilt in the same way as the patchwork. Stitch the panels to each matching side of the basket base, stopping 5mm from each end.
Stitch the sides of the basket together u