Finished Silk Carrier Rods.

Remember the silk carrier rods project?
As soon as I brought the material home from class I knew I wanted to make a bag of some kind from it though I set myself 3 criteria for completing it.

They were:

1. The design of the bag would have to fit round the panel.
2. The bag had to serve a purpose and be useful.
3. I would only use material and notions that I already had and not buy anything extra.

This design is a version of a pattern by Bronwyn Hayes from her Flowerbed book. I do not have the pattern and have only seen a picture of one made on another blog so this is my interpretation of it.

Now I have a place to put all my crochet hooks/crochet cottons and embriodery needles/threads. By using the silk rod panel for the front of the bag I just sized the rest of it to match. Best of all I did only use stuff from my stash. So here it is.

Front view showing the silk rod panel and the added embriodery details:

Side view showing the inset bag which is stitched to the base:

And opened up flat to show the drawstring bag inset housing all my crochet cottons and the
pockets for embrioderythreads /needles and crochet hooks:

My next class is on Wednesday so stay tuned!!