Here is a bag I made recently, blue and orange, with a different pattern.

Last week, I showed you a bag with tabs. I tried again this week. Check it out.

Here is the bag I made this week.

Here is the latest bag. My newest design but in blue and yellow and a bit bigger.

Here is a picture of all three I have made in this design.

Our daughter, McKenzie, was here visiting from New York City this last week. You will recognize her from a prior posting:

While she was here, I made a couple of bags for her to take home.

A big blue one for her

and a big orange one for her boss, Brad.

This is a standard, small bag made with parallel straps with the ends joined behind the vertical blue strap with the buckle.

This is the basic large bag made with parallel straps, each stap being sewn to itself I sew around in circles.

My daughter, Hilary, gave me an idea that lead to me spending all day coming up with a new design. It is more of a purse than a grocery or lunch bag but I made two and they came out pretty cool.

Yellow with orange

Detail on yellow bag with ornange

Orange bag with black

Detail on orange bag

The ends of some trauma straps are sewn back on themselves, forming tabs. Here is another way I used those tabs for decorative purposes. Thanks to Shari for the idea.

Here is the front.

Close up of front

Back

I bought these orange handles at RAFT for a buck a long time ago. The bag is made from a piece of striped material left over from a previous bag. It was very tricky to get the bottom corners. The combination of small size and curved bottom made it really difficult to manipulate the sewing machine to shape the bottom. I think I will try again with a larger size. It will have to have  another type of handle since I only had one set of orange ones.

I tried again making a large bag wider at the base than at the opening, this time yellow with blue contrast.

This is the front.

And the back.