Quilt Symposium, Auckland, October 2019: Claire Smith’s Quilt-as-you-go Bag class

11 10 2019

I’m a bit late posting this as I had paid work to do as soon as I got home from NZ.

My last two days of classes at Quilt Symposium were both with Claire Smith (a Kiwi), and they were very different. The first was monoprinting, and the second was making a ‘quilt-as-you-go’ bag.

This bag was easy to make, and is fully lined. I even had time to add an outside pocket and two inside pockets. I also modified her design a little to add long handles, suitable for carrying this bag over your shoulder. I chose beachy colours—it would be perfect to take to the beach or have beside the pool, or even for more mundane things like shopping!

Some of the bags produced by the class


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27 10 2019
Combining classes | Rhonda Bracey: At Random

[…] weeks ago. I took two of Claire Smith’s classes—one on monoprinting and one on making a quilt-as-you-go bag. Today I combined them! I took the green/yellow tones fabrics I made in the monoprinting class, […]

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