Tote Bags – 2005 and 2006

I came across a Bareroots pattern for a tote bag and it was so cute I had to make it.  The background is strip pieced.  It has a double embroidered pocket on the front and an embroidered handle.

Here’s a close up of the embroidered design on the front pockets.

It’s a cute quilt shop with a flower border that says, I Love Quilting.  I machine quilted the tote in an overall loop meander.  It goes with me to every quilt guild meeting.

Here’s a picture of the pattern.

I liked this tote bag so much that I made it again when I got into doing red work.  This time I machine quilted the tote by stitching in the ditch along the seam of each strip of fabric.  I did the double pocket again using the same flowered embroidery on the outside of the first pocket.  For the second pocket, I did a red work embroidery design of a lady encountering a cat.

Here’s a closeup of the pocket embroidery.