The Valley Modern Quilt guild is having a zippered bag exchange. Those of us who chose to participate brought in a fat quarter of our fabric, and we traded the fabrics. What kind of bag we made was entirely up to us – as long a there is a zipper involved.
Here is my choice of fabric, Ruth will be making my bag.
and here is what I got from Denise, we both chose dots.
Every so often I actually go back and look at my pinterest boards and pick a project. There was a very interesting bag that caught my eye. There even were instructions, along with a zipper it called for an interesting metal frame.
I made a practice bag, things went wonky, so I threw it out and found another pinterest post that gave better instructions. I decided on another trial run.
This one worked very well.
I stabilized the bag with Soft and Stable and as you can see, it opens wide and stays open.
I have used up most of these labels, time to order new one.
So now it was time to use the fabric Denise gave me.
I used some star fabric along with the dots. 
The frames is longer but not as deep.
So the bag doesn’t open as wide, but it is still very functional, I added some internal pockets as well.
Denise likes her bag, I will share the bag I got in another post.