Art Gallery Fabrics (AGF) has a
great tutorial on their blog on how to make The Christina Clutch. When I saw this tutorial, I immediately thought of my sister and set about making her a surprise gift. She likes blues and grays, so those are the colors I focused on for the clutch.
She, like myself, really enjoys the
Clover and Crickets by Heather Ross, so I use that for the liner (used is the bright green color with yellow flowers, but it was made in three colors).
The bow is done in
Tula Pink's Swarm in Indigo from her Moon Shine collection. The main outside is done from the blue boarder fabric from
Heather Givans' Succulent collection (I had a lot of this left over since the boarder is only along one selvage edge and not both like I thought it would be).
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| All my fabrics cut and ready to go! |
This is a very quick project and can easily be done in a day. I followed the tutorial exactly, except that I quilted my outer pieces to batting and a plain cotton backing (instead of adding interfacing). Hence, there is some batting and cotton backing shown above instead of interfacing. The quilting allows the bag to hold shape and I think my substitution worked well!
I also added a little D-ring so a an optional strap could be added later. I just did this using a scrap of the main fabric to make sure everything matched.
