Round 5 of Project Quilting

This week’s challenge was “Give It Away”.  My friend Maygie is this amazing artist and like every artist I’ve ever known, she tries all kinds of different types of art.  That means she has all kinds of different things to store.  She has been fighting some health challenges this year, so I decided I would make her a bucket.  She can use it store supplies or hold her current project or even as a waste bucket.

The outside is fabric that was probably sold to make outdoor cushions.  It just reads nautical to me, so it needed a sailboat.  It has been a while since I have made a bag, so I had to go find some directions to remember how to orient the outside and the lining to get this piece together.  Of course, that meant I had that old conversation with myself about “why I don’t use patterns to begin with -- it would make things so much easier at times…”