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Tuxedo Cats Basket Bag

Tuck some yarn inside this itty bitty Basket Bag and you've got a swell gift for any cat loving knitter!

See a collection (affiliate link) of etsy shops with the cotton/linen canvas cat fabric here.

Tuxedo Cats Cotton Linen Canvas Basket Bag

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Ooohlala...look at this itty bitty basket bag with these adorable tuxedo cats!  Sew, sew cute!

This little bag is size 1 in the Basket Bags sewing pattern.  

The exterior fabric is a cotton/linen blend Japanese fabric from Hishiei Shoji and the lining is a black and white heart print from Andover.

The tuxedo cat fabric came from Kimono Momo on etsy and she does still have some of this cat print fabric in the beige colorway, but I don't see this pink one. 

So I set off to find more and ran into some trouble since most of the Japanese fabric manufacturers don't name their prints and collections.  This isn't the first time I've wished they'd name the print/collections since it makes it much, much easier to find the fabrics online if there is name as a point of reference.

Since I have this fabric, naturally I started out by looking at the selvedge for the info.  This one shows:

But that's it! 

The problem here is there is no manufacturer info and many search functions now auto-correct spelling and in this case etsy, and sometimes google too, want to change Atuko to Atsuko Matsuyama. Love her fabric too, but that's not what we are looking for here.  

In the end, I was able to find more listings for this fabric on etsy by using a variety of searches like "tuxedo cat fabric", "cotton linen cat fabric" and you can go here if you'd like to see them.  

Basket Bag in Rifle Paper Juliet Rose Canvas

 

Rifle Paper's Juliet Rose cotton/linen canvas fabric has been waiting patiently in my stash for me to make it into something special and here it is now.  

This is Size 2 in the Basket Bags pattern.  I also made a small Grocery Bag from it and will take pics of that bag soon.  

Striped Denim Basket Bag

Striped Denim Basket Bag

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Denim paired with a floral fabric always works for me and here it is again in this bag.  

This is Size 2 in the Basket Bags sewing pattern.  

The exterior fabric is this 10-ounce railroad stripe denim.  I'm making all sorts of bags from this fabric because it looks good with everything!

The floral fabric, which is quickly becoming an all-time floral favorite for me, is available here.  But get over there fast because its on the way to being OOP, and right now I can find only one yard here.  The print name is Garden Serenade and it's from the Carry a Tune collection by Michael Miller.  

Basket Bags Pattern Tool Bag Mod

Here we go with the first mod for the Basket Bags pattern and if you want to wrangle a bunch of your tools into one handy bag, you will like this one.  This is my tool bag and I've been using it for a few weeks now and love it!

Inside are a few pairs of scissors, chalk, seam gauges, pens, and a bunch of other things that I use pretty frequently. On top there you can see the very first Rose Pincushion Cuff I ever made! Yep, I still have it years later and use it all the time.

This tool bag is working out great because it keeps me from spreading my tools out all over the place on my work area--which is already not big enough (not sure it ever could be, really).

Because I have limited space and a lot of things I sew are small, my ironing board is another place where I do quite a bit of cutting and prepping.  It's nice to just grab the bag and move my tools from the official cutting table to the ironing board.

The finish bag is shallow, but the gusset corners make it quite stable and it will plop down just about anywhere without falling over and spilling your stuff out.  Here is sits on a pile of fabric:

To make this shallow Basket Bag here is what you do:

• Cut the bag body pieces 16" wide x 6.5" high.  
• Using the Size 2 handle piece, make marks 1.25" below the end you place on the fold.  Cut the handle pieces using the marks at 1.25" as the new cut on fold end.  
• In step 6.d, the marks are made at 5".

That's it!

The Basket Bags pattern is available here at michellepatterns.com, or here in my etsy shop.

Strawberry Basket Bag

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Oxford fabric, like this pink strawberry print, is one of my favorite fabrics for the Grocery Bags. After finishing making a large Grocery Bag from the one yard I purchased, some of what was left was put to use making this Basket Bag.

There was also more fabric left over and the remnants are posted for sale right here.  Yardage of this fabric can be found on here.