Introducing my Blossoms on Blue quilted bag. It's a good size bag, perfect for holding library books or some groceries. I may use it to hold my yarn and my new crochet project.

Starting yesterday for FNSI, I used my Crafters Edge Crossover II machine to cut out 40 x 5" tumblers. I used a batik charm pack and the machine cut through these in a flash. I've never used batik fabric before and I have to say that every time I pressed the work, the smell of the fabric reminded me of the art rooms in my old high school (from 20 years ago).

As the charm pack was made up of print doubles, I split them in half to use as each side of the bag. After quilting both sides, I trimmed the two quilted pieces down to 16" x 18". It was ready to assemble at that stage, but I couldn't help feeling that it needed "something" more. 

I left it overnight and went back to it today. Sometimes, you just have to sleep on it to be inspired, right?

I decided to applique some flowers with the Large Flower die - choosing the fabric to make the blooms, which would suit the blue background probably took longer than any other part of the process.

The circle centre in this die set is small, so I chose a larger centre circle from the circle die set. The fabric was light and it lost its brightness when placed on top of the pink, so I used that same circular die to cut out plain white circles to place underneath it. They were perfectly the same size and were invisibly snuggled under the floral fabric. 

I'm so pleased with my Blossoms on Blue Quilted Bag and how much fun it was to make with the Crafters Edge Crossover II.