Planning for travel seems like a foolish notion right now but at the beginning of lock down I went through my stash and pulled out some fabrics that need to be sewn up. One of which was this gorgeous hand drawn map fabric from Rifle Paper Co.
I love a hand drawn map, whimsical with promises of exploring it’s right in the wheel house of things I enjoy. Add to that the fact The Englishman spends a great deal of his day looking at or drawing maps as part of his day job and well, a bit of map based fabric stood no chance around here.
Originally purchased from Miss Matatabi I’ve had it stashed away waiting to be something. As always I had elaborate plans and then decided that simple was best. Using a ruler and a rotary cutter I sliced it up so that I could fold each panel. add a zipper, sew along the bottom and the side and have a pouch.
Zips were from the stash hence why there are different colour zip tapes and I used some of the selvedge to neaten off the ends of some of the zippers to give a better finish to the top.
With travel off the cards for quite some time I’ll put these to use as project bags for my embroideries and dream about a time when we are free to explore once again.
Pattern: none just winged it
Fabric: printed panels by Rifle Paper Co originally from Miss Matatabi
Alterations: none