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Finnangers Fave bucket bag
This step by step photo tutorial will assist in the making of the Tilda Club project released November 2023. The full pattern will be released to the general public in May 2024.
If you need EPP Iron-on orange peels you can order them here.
Prepare your 36 orange peel shapes following the instructions – if you need more assistance please visit my EPP and applique videos.
Audition your peels onto a background fabric you like best.
Outer bag background fabric:
Mark using a chalk or blue watersoluble pen a 2” grid on your fabric rectangle. Note: leave a 1/4” seam allowance
all sides.
Spray baste fabric lightly to foam bag batting and using a walking foot and blending thread quilt through both layers on all marked lines.
Repeat this process with the outer bag base and foam circle. Use the 7 1/2” circle ruler to mark and cut the foam circle. Spray baste onto the fabric base circle (use the 8” circle ruler to mark and cut this)
Quilting the bag base - Start by folding the circle and marking the centre creases, then make and quilt 2” either side of centre lines.
Position prepared orange peel shapes onto your outer bag gridded fabric following the diagram in your pattern.
Gluebaste into position using Roxanne’s basting glue or similar.
Applique into place by hand or machine. You will have two peels leftover which will be applied once the bag is sewn into a tube. Optional: stitch a running stitch around the orange peels using a HNK stitchery needle and
Perle thread for added interest.
Join the 12 tilda 2 1/2” x 5” strips together to make one strip 24 1/2” long. Press well.
Place right sides together with the 5” x 24 1/2” fabric and stitch along one long edge. Press open.
Fold so that the two short ends are right sides together and stitch. Fold tube in half along the seam and press. Edgestitch around the top edge.
Stitch another row 1/2” below the edgestitch to form a channel.
Fold outer bag panel right sides together to form a tube and stitch down short edge. note: the foam was 1/4” shorter on all sides so will not stitch into the seam. Gluebaste and applique the last two orange peels into
place.