The Bucket Bag, a simple cylinder

This is the type of bag whose sides are sewn into a cylinder and then attached to a base. The base can vary in shape.

  Typical base shapes are circles, ovals, rectangles and squares, all of various sizes and proportions.

Although I had already sewn a fabric container with the square bottom,

 I sewed another one with a circular bottom.

I began by sewing front out of two fabrics and a piece of ribbon with soft in stable And a backing  of the black-and-white house fabric.  

At this point I decided to find out how much I could quilt on soft n stable because until now I haven't really done anything more than  straight lines on it. I found out that it is possible to free motion quilt on it with no problem whatsoever.

I sewed the long rectangle and covered the seam with a binding.  Covered the top edge with a ribbon binding.

In order to determine how large of a circle to use for the base, I looked up some formula by googling it.

This is what I found.

Basically, the diameter is the circumference divided by pi or 3.14

The length of my rectangle was 24 inches, so that circle should be 7.6 inches.  Plus another half inch for the seam allowance.

Again with the soft and stable, quilting straight lines, then cutting out the circle and I zigzagged the edges.

Okay you might notice that the base has changed fabric, on my first one I forgot to add the seam allowance.

Moving right along you can see that I zig zagged the three layers together for ease of handling as I attached the base.

I decided not to attach any handles.

Fabric basket

Have you seen the fabric baskets that people have been making lately?  they are so cute, and quite useful too!

these ones are from lesliesartandsew.blog

Sometimes they have handles, as in the photo above, Sometimes they have a folded over top edge.  they can be tall or short, and rounded or square,.

I decided to use some orphan blocks I had made some time ago.  

I had 4 blocks that finished at about 8 inches. 

 

 I just sewed them into a row, and quilted it, using soft and stable as the batting.  Then I joined them into a tube.

  I made a bottom square the same size, and sewed it to the bottom edge of the blocks, 

 To make a stiffer bottom, I covered a piece of timtex and placed it in the bottom

When I quilted the blocks, I used linen as the backing fabric, and cut it wider at the top edge.  That  way I just rolled it down over the front edge of the blocks to self-bind the top edge.  

Unfortunately I forgot to take any photos of the process when I was sewing it,

I have been using the basket, and it is quite handy!  It is a good size to keep a knitting project in. 
As usual, making it has made me think of what I'll do for the next one, 
As a sidenote.  I am working my way through my stack of orphan blocks, and abandoned projects,  which feels pretty good.