quilterpurpledog

Wow! The are great and look to be so usable and useful. I like the fabric you used.

lindaschipper

All I can say is "WOW"! Never in a million years could I attempt something like these duffle bags.

dluvs2quilt

Very nice duffle bags!!

Sync

Whoa .... absolutely gorgeous duffles

Jules51

Wow! Beautiful duffel bags and lucky recipients!

love to sew

Thank you for the directions and I love the idea of cutting to size and then quilting on the long arm. Very nice.

Here are a few construction comments:
Didn't use a pattern, although I have made the RK Cargo Duffle a couple times. Wonderful free pattern found here:
http://www.robertkaufman.com/quiltin...argo_duffle_2/
I intended these to be reusable gift bags, they are no frills. No pockets etc. I sized the height and depth to fit the gifts :-)
they wound up 20" wide because I have a 20.5" square up ruler!
I used nice quality fabric for the backing when I quilted them, so no additional lining.
After quilting the pieces, I cut them to size, then serged all the edges, which encased the backing, batting and top fabric.
Then I just sewed the pieces together using the edge of the serged seam as a sewing guide.
I had made this style bag before when I didn't have a serger & I just bound all the raw edges by bringing the backing fabric to the front like you would bind a quilt.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.[/QUOTE]

Tiggersmom

Your bags came out AWEsome! Lucky recipients.

Teddybear Lady

Perfect fabric for these bags. Great job!

sue.ross.8782

How beautiful. The recipients must have been dazzled when they saw the bags.

QuiltnNan

wow, great bags and the quilting is awesome