he drew the line at the yoga pants

You may or may not recall that I had the pleasure of taking the circles and curves weekend intensive class that Maria Shell did a few months back. These are some of the individual units I did and they were laid out in a bazillion different ways as I contemplated what to use them for.  

When my current yoga back fell apart - I had my answer. Why not try to make a yoga bag? I found a tutorial on YouTube that I followed very loosely. 

A strap was fashioned, a bottom circular piece, and the body. That's it, 3 pieces. Minimal measuring. 

I will size the bottom circle a bit better the next time. I really had to work this in, with lots of gathering through many layers of quilting. After 2 universal needles were broken, I switched to a jean's needle. There are lessons to learn in every project. 

Once it was all done I forced Chris to put it over his shoulder and model it for me. I prefer to do the snapping and have someone else do the posing. 

He did a great job but drew the line at putting on yoga pants to "look the part". 

There will be more circles and curves in my sewing future. I will practice more, and maybe come up with a loose idea of what I want to do with all the circles or curves before I begin. There is something to be said for a bit of pre-planning. In the class I was not sure what I would be ending up with in terms of "pieces", but now I do. As with the previous class I took (half circles and lines), this was a wonderful technique class that has many many applications for those of us who like to improvise. Can I just say that doing free motion big flowers is a whole lot of fun? 

Comments

[Chris Oliveira]

That came out great! I wish I could sew like that.

[carol]

thanks Chris!

[Ann]

A beautiful bag and the quilting’s amazing!

[carol]

Thank you Ann!

[Maureen]

Wow! It turned out great! And that sunflower you quilted is wonderful!