Insert in the hoop Jean fabric and a cut away

Clip the hoop into your machine and then slide under Floriani Stitch and Shape (You can purchase the Stitch and Shape from:

United States
www.rnkdistributing.com

Australia
florianiembroidery.com.au

Stitch out the following designs:

Hotel_01

Sheriff

Saloon

Stitch the first “Default colour” the stitch out is the size of fabric you will need for your sky background.

I chose a yellow sky fabric (choose whatever would best suite you) Stitch the second “Default” colour out

Take your hoop out of your machine and cut away the excess fabric

Insert your hoop back into the machine and stitch out “Default colour” number three

I chose a mottled hand dyed fabric for the ground cover (choose whatever would best suite you) Stitch the fourth “Default” colour out.

Fourth” Default colour” stitched out

Take the hoop out of your machine and cut away any excess fabric then clip your hoop back into your machine

Stitch out “Bag top_bot_01” 16 times. I also designed another block for the top and bottom of the bag “Bag top_bot_02” this one has more detail in the design, I will leave that up to you as to which design block you would like to stitch out.  Cut away from the satin stitched border with your scissors

Stitch out the following designs for the bag

Back_01 once

Back_02 once

Back_03 once

Bag side twice

Bag top_bot_01 16 times

Bot_01 twice

Bot_02 once

Hotel_01 once

Saloon once

Sheriff once

Once you have stitched all the designs out, cut away all of the above designs around the satin stitched borders using your scissors.

Join each panel using a zigzag stitch to start with. Over the zigzag stitch, stitch using a satin stitch all the panels as shown in the photographs to the left.

All the panels to the left are satin stitched together

All the panels to the left are satin stitched together

All the panels to the left are satin stitched together

Stitch all the panels together as shown in the photo

Stitch all the panels together as shown in the photo

Stitch the “Bot_01” to “Bot_02” and then stitch another “Bot_01” together. Stitch the base part to to the following three panels

Back_01

Back_02

Back_03

Stitch the base panels to “Bag side”

Stitch the front panel to the base of the bag

Stitch the other side panel to the base of the bag

Getting ready to sew the final panels together

Purchase a 35cm bag zipper

Cut two panels larger than your bag

Iron down two folds for the zipper and stitch, insert the zipper

At each end of the zipper I put two blocks (I have no idea what you would call them) this finishes the top panel off nicely.

Showing you a close up of the block

Make an insert with pockets for the bag. I always like to use light coloured fabric for the lining of bags, that way you can see more clearly as to what you have in your bag

I purchased these handles at http://www.thequiltingheart.com/pdf/baghandles.pdf

Close up of the handles

Make a centre point to place the centre design which is “Back_02” using either chalk or marking pen

Print out all three of the following designs in “Actual Size” with the your centre markers

Back_01

Back_02

Back_03

Positioning all three designs using the print outs in “Actual size”

Stitch out the centre design first which is “Back_02”

Place the hoop where you would like “Back_01”

Placing the needle in the centre where you marked with either chalk or marking pen “Back_01”