The Rumbleford Bag Pattern

The Rumbleford Bag Pattern

by Make It Easy

*NEW and SEALED*

Rumbleford is an easy-to-make big tote bag that starts with a rectangular panel. That panel can be as simple as a piece of fabric right off the bolt, or as fancy as you like.

Think of it as an artist's canvas--a place to try out techniques ranging from piecing to applique? to embroidery to fabric collage to slash-fabric (faux chenille) to crazy quilting to stamping to painting to beading... whatever! Your imagination is the only limit to what you can do with Rumbleford!

Once you've made your panel, the bag goes together easily in two to four hours... and you've got a very practical showcase for your creativity.

• Complete step-by-step instructions for making BOTH plain-fabric and pieced-and-quilted bags
• Complete step-by-step instructions for optional braided and corded straps
• General instructions for making slash-fabric (faux chenille), fabric collage, and 9-patch bags

Rumbleford--A Creative Canvas! Rumbleford is a creative canvas for virtually all the fiber arts! Try techniques like piecing, quilting, slashing (faux chenille), fabric collage, embroidery, stamping, painting, dying, scrunching, beading... whatever!

Whether you're experimenting with new techniques or pushing the envelope using techniques you already know, the relatively small size and rectangular shape of the panel that becomes a Rumbleford bag gives you a very manageable work space, with little risk if things go awry... and a fun and practical showcase for your creation if it turns out well.

Faux Chenille makes a wonderfully textured Rumbleford bag. Fabric collage and raw-edge lapplique? end themselves well to Rumbleford.

The Rumbleford pattern gives complete instructions for making a one-patch pieced-and-quilted bag... but it could be made using any piecing and quilting technique. This 9-patch bag is an obvious variation, but virtually any block design could be substituted. Rumbleford also lends itself well to foundation-pieced blocks--including elaborately embellished crazy quilted creations.