D12 Dice Bag

Can you believe it's been almost three months since I completed a quilt?  For me, that's a long time!  I'm pretty close though: I finished two tops last week and I'm working on the last block of a third right now.  The first top is bagged up and ready for the longarm quilter, but waiting so I can take the third top at the same time.  The second top is basted and waiting for me to send those two out so I can quilt it myself at home.  So there should be a flurry of finished quilts in September!

I have also done a little non-quilt sewing.  My son asked me a few months ago if I could make him a dice bag for his new D12 collection, and I'm always happy to sew custom requests for my kids (but only my kids!).  I dusted off my favorite drawstring bag pattern, but, unfortunately, none of the fabric in my stash fit his vision, so he had to wait until I placed a new fabric order to pick out something that he liked.  I'm proud to say that I made this bag within a week of the fabric arriving!

He was thrilled with my suggestion to line the bag with some scrap flannel and chose leftovers from the back of my leaders and enders quilt.  The pull strings are made from leftover binding strips - the bag isn't very big so I didn't need very much.  He chose all the thread colors for the top stitching; I've learned from previous kid projects that's it's better to have them pick everything visible so they are happy with the final product.

This bag has already acquired some additional items and gone to a few game nights; he's very happy with it!