Challenge Progress

I've been working away on the bag challenge over the last few nights.  The seam ripper has been out to sort out some quilting disasters, but now the base quilting on both bag body panels is complete and the grid quilting on the bag base is complete.

Much to my surprise and delight the new 12mm bias tape maker was waiting for me when I got home from work last Thursday, so, I worked away and once I got my rhythm completed 12 'worms' of fabric, 6 of each colour.  Then came the problem on how I weave the strips together, and get them to stay in place to create a solid piece of fabric.

I've been ironing them onto some Heat n Bond Lite, but have now notice the next problem that's looming.  The top and bottom strip edges (the warp) will easily sewn in, and covered in the seams, but the shorter strips (the weft) will have to be folded under and secured into place, problem is I haven't left a lot of fabric for turning under, plus they aren't secured adequately.  I think I'll have to do a large stitch basting strip along these edges, probably through the Heat n Bond in an effort to stabilise the whole thing.  

This will require a little more experimenting on the go to sort this out.  In the meantime here's hoping that I get back to it on WOW.