A Big Fat Fail

I will not get my June Chookshed Challenge met this month.  Insert sad face…..

My goal was to make the Sew Together Bag from pretty Tilda fabrics.  I knew it was a fiddly make, but was ready for the challenge.

To refresh, these are the fabrics I intend to use.  The pale one isn’t Tilda, but works beautifully with the other two.  It will be the inside of the three internal zipper pockets.  The large floral will be the outer and the ditzy daisy the internal section between the pockets.

Now, to select a binding….  This is where I hit a road block.  I just wasn’t feeling it.

Option Number One

The pink works well with the prints, but is a bit too pink for the overall look, in my humble opinion.

Option Number Two 

Once again, the colour co-ordinates well with the large print, but it then looks too brown.  I know, fussy aren’t I.

I kept coming back to the patchwork basket I made with fabrics from this range.  The blue binding worked so well.  

There was no blue similar to this anywhere in town, so I bit the bullet and ordered some online.  While I was at it, I also bought some more pretty fabric.

Resistance was impossible.  This is from the latest Tilda range called “Wallflower”.  When do you ever see a print named “Janice”?  It comes in four colours, blue, red, green and caramel.  The colours being the colour of the leaves.  I thought about buying them all, but that was being a bit silly, so settled on the blue.

I’m much happier with the blue binding.  Isn’t it amazing how the different coloured binding brings out the colours in the large print and gives it a totally different look.  The blue seems much calmer and you really only see the binding fabric next to the large print on the bag.  I think that “Janice” may be one of the internal section colours now, as it fits in so very well, and breaks it up a bit.

Having said all that, I am not going to make a start this month, as I have simply run out of time.  Like a couple of the other challenge projects, I do still hope to have it made by the end of the year.

You see, we are going to be travelling again.  Hopefully, we will get further this time around.

I do have some other projects to work on while away.  As always, it will be interesting to see how much, if any, I get done.