Serene Spirals

After working with all the lovely bright colours on my last lot of spiralling work.. I fancied working with some soft, neutral colours.  To be honest mostly because I have a LOT of the lovely chunky BFL boucle yarn (that I used in the spirals) naturally dyed in soft beiges and creamy tones, and I really want to start using them.

I decided to make a small tote bag with a Big spiral spreading up from the bottom of the bag.

Gathered all my soft, pretty fibres and some yarns together

Made bag and pocket resists

inner pocket design.. a pink and yellow spiral with cream tussah silk behind

6 fibre layers encase the bag resist

Drew a big spiral half on and half off the bag

After flipping it I carefully brought each strand of the spiral up onto
the second side and  placed it where I wanted .

Inner pocket.. love these pink and yellow spirals :)

I forgot to take photos for a while now :S  But I decided to cut the reinforcing for the handle from a lovely light green woollen blanket which I have fulled in the washing machine.  

I blanket stitched the reinforcing inplace with pretty pink embroidery thread

'Cos this was a shallow bag I think it needed a closure.
I use the sew on magnetic snaps.. they are kinder to the felt in the long term.
I stitch them onto patches of felt, then stitch the patches onto the bag
inner.. I think it distributes the force when pulling them open

This was the second side that I laid the spiral on

Added a random cluster of vintage buttons.. Oh how I love buttons :)

xoxo