Simple Bags and Totes Sewn with Rectangles and Squares
Streamline the sewing process to make fun projects in no time at all.“I like to sew but I really don’t have the time.” Sound familiar? Nancy Zieman’s three-part series, Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares, will change the way you think about projects and patterns. Everything demonstrated is simply cut from rectangles and squares!
The Travel Trio
During this first episode, learn how to create a weekender tote, cosmetic bag, and luggage saddlebag. This travel trio is made using comparable sewing steps, straight stitching, and double-sided quilted fabrics.
Cosmetic Bag
Even if you’ve never sewn before, you can stitch this bag!
Weekender Tote
After learning how to make a simple cosmetic bag, apply many of the same sewing steps to create a Weekender Tote. It’s a super-sized cosmetic bag with the addition of sturdy straps and double pockets.
Luggage Saddle Bag
For ease of travel, make a saddlebag for your carry-on luggage or rolling case. Two sizes of bags are attached with connector straps.
When not using this handy accessory on your luggage, zip the bags together and it’s a handy shoulder tote.
Sewing With Nancy Trivia—This photo was quickly taken on the Sewing With Nancy set. Notice the tape on the floor? Those were the positioning marks for Nancy’s chair in the Nancy’s Corner area. The chair had to be moved in order to take the photo. Now you see how they kept the props and furniture in the right place!
12 Complete Projects in the Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares book.
All the projects featured in the three-part series, plus a bonus, are included in the book, Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares.
Watch Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three) on Sewing With Nancy.
For a chance to win a copy of Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares Book and DVD from Nancy’s Notions, simply leave a comment sharing your dream travel destination.
The randomly selected winner of a copy of the Fearless Quilting Finishes book from Nancy’s Notions, is Gale Betterly .
Her comment is: The tip about using the fusible web to join the binding is fantastic! I do a number of presentation quilts and that tip alone will save me time and frustration!
Happy Sewing,
Team Nancy Zieman
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diane c
Ireland and Switzerland — hope to get there after we retire
Lorraine Alves
I was able to use Nancy’s ideas to make a suitcase saddlebag. It is perfect for traveling. I am excited to make the other bags as well.
Sharon
Too old to travel, but I love purses.
Cyndi Duffin
Oh a quilt cruise to Hawaii would be wonderful!!
Donna Fecteau
I have always wanted to go to Ireland. It is definitely on my bucket list.
Clovis
My husband would like to go back to the Bahamas.
Barb B.
I have always wanted to go to Australia. So many famous Quilters are from there.
Eileen Gottbeheat
I’m going to Australia this spring. Should be a great time.
Claudia
I want to visit Paris, France.
MoeWest
I would love to visit Italy!
K
Cruise the fjiords of Norway.
Karen Long
Since I was a child and saw movies where people went to Niagra Falls I have wanted to visit to see the falls. Have not been there yet!
Carole Smith
I would love to visit Alaska, Hawaii, and Australia. Probably never get the chance, maybe by travel angel will whiz me by those places on my way to heaven….. hmmm. Love the bags. I would make them and use them for our short trips to the gulf.
Margaret Scott
Would love to go to Machu Picchu. The ruins fascinate me.
Would also like the book. I have made many of the travel bags for presents and they are great.
beth d.
I would love to go to Bermuda again. we went on our honeymoon approximately 27 years ago.
Deena Paine
I’d just like to go anywhere the weather is nice, easy traveling and just to have a few minutes to just breath without the outside world-beating my door down. Just a little time off from the rest of the world would be wonderful.
Janet Anderson
To visit Japan and see any of the quilting stars there would be dream come true.
Lisa-Karen Meetze
This would be perfect for my dream vacation to visit my ancestral home in Inverary and Dollar Scotland!
Gail K
Oh gosh, it’s difficult to identify just one dream destination. I will say England, as I lived there as a child and would love to revisit to compare with my memories.
Janis Garrison
Alaska my son works on fishing boats there. I live in Florida so I really miss him. Have had cancer 3 times now the bad kind so not a lot of chance I will ever get the chance to see it.
Donna W
I would love to travel around Alaska.
Sylvia Vega-Ortiz
Greece and the outlying Islands! I want to see the sparkling blue waters, stark white buildings, cloudless skies, enjoy the wonderful music and beautiful arts and crafts….and feel the sensational sunshine of course!
Teri
Would love to visit Norway.
Joanne T
I have always wanted to visit Ireland.
Mary Snyder
I would have to say anywhere, overseas or in the USA since the only places we have been to were on a bus trip and there is so much to see in the US. My time is running out age wise and it would be nice to travel some where 🙂
And having a beautiful bag or tote would be extra special. Thanks for the designs in the travel bags
Cynthia T
I would love to go to Ireland.
Diane L. Putzer
Hawaii first, then who knows!
Linda Janovitz
For years now when a checker asks me if I found everything I needed I would reply: I still can’t find that trip to Switzerland !
Then they chuckle and say: When you do I’ll go with you !
Twyla
Spain and Rome area. Thank you for the giveaway!
Gayle Iadevaia
My dream trip would be any international destination with the American Sewing Guild…..what an adventure that would be!!
Peggy S
My dream trip is Bali. I would enjoy watching the process of making batik fabric.
Debbie
My dream destinations would be Hawaii and Italy. Or Germany & visit the foreign exchange student we sponsored about 30 yrs ago.
Marylou
My dream travel destination is not really all that excited but would love to go to Raleigh N.C. -my daughter moved there 8 years ago and even though she gets to come visit us I have not yet been able to visit where she lives and would love to see it.
Jan N.
I would love to go to South Africa on a safari.
Edna Marks
I would love to visit each of the 50 States. We have so much beauty in our own country I really have no desire to travel anywhere else.
Rosie Cahill
My dream vacation would be weeks in Italy and Germany. Or a royal cruise around the Mediterranean.
Bonnye
I would like to take a trip out west camping. Enjoying the beautiful national and state parks.
Carol Stephani
It would be a privilege and honor to take my daughter, super son-in-law and grandsons on a trip to Ireland…and I’m not even Irish!
Dena M
My dream travel destination is Norway.
Martha
“Someday” I’d like to visit friends in Japan (where I was a college exchange student 41 years ago) and tour European family heritage sites (where I have never been: Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland) plus walk in the Middle East historic sites with my husband. “Around the World in 80 Days” would be fine, too!
Beverly
My dream destination (the only travel on my bucket list) is a trip to explore Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Ursula M
For a few years now my dream vacation has been a world cruise. I would leave from NYC and come back 4 to 6 months later.
L Watson
Hawaii would be very exciting to visit.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Michelle Hall
Scotland and Ireland are on my travel bucket list
Maga
Travel slowly through France by train would a fabulous experience and finish the trip off with a side track to Vienna. Who knows it may still happen one day.
Linda Ashley
I would like to take a road trip through out the Northwestern part of the US, where these bags would be great. And of course I would include some fabric hop shopping there.
Annette Parsons
England would be my trip of a lifetime .
Claudia DiNardo
I would love to travel through Italy. My husband and I would like to see the sights in large cities and also visit smaller villages to meet people and do some hiking.
Dawn M
My dream vacation would be taking my son to his birthplace in Scotland. My husband was in the Navy and we were stationed in Dunoon, Scotland. It was so beautiful! It would definitely be a trip of a lifetime!
Susan
A weekender tote could carry me away to the streets of Paris, France to capture all the fabulous sites!
Kathryn Englebretsen
South America and Antartica are the last 2 continents left to visit. I would love a trip up the Amazon.
Janet johnson
A simple little cruise to Alaska would be wonderful.
These bags would be a great way to keeps things organized.
Jean Morgan
I would dearly love to go back to my birth country, England, to see my only surviving aunt.
Gail Beam
Hard choice between Ireland, Scotland, England and Australia or a cruise to anywhere
E Watson
I would love to visit Hawaii, Scotland, and Ireland. 🙂
Marie Kozma
I dream of a cruise to the Panama Canal with my husband. Someday…….
Sandi
My dream destination would be the British Isles including the Isle of Man where my husband’s relative came from. I’m always looking for easy to sew projects for my high school students and these travel items fit that perfectly— fairly quick, easy to get professional results, and items that teens want.
Anne Z.
I would love to go to Norway and Switzerland the scenery in both countries looks fabulous. However, these travel bags would make packing for any trip/weekend getaway easier.
Noreen
I would love to visit England, Scandinavia, and Germany.