Sew Together LIVE! - Season 2 - How to Make A Cuddle® Duffle Bag

STL Shannon Fabrics February 3, 2026

Tune into our March episode of Sew Together LIVE! Bag Making Edition! Cuddle® Ambassador Sheila Ryan will be teaching how to make a Duffle Bag with Cuddle® fabric and showing optional pocket construction. You can use any kind of fabric, but a duffle bag made with Cuddle® fabric is a new level of special

Skill Builders: Here are some of the skills you'll learn in this episode

• bag making
• zippers
• Binding with Cuddle®

How to Make a Quilted Duffle Bag with Cuddle®

Sheila Ryan Cuddle® Ambassador

Project info:

• Link to Bodobo Bags Simple Mini Duffles and Mama and Baby Duffles Pattern: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BodoboBags
• Link to Knot and Thread Patchwork Duffle pattern: https://knotandthread.com/products/patchwork-duffle-2nd-edition
• Digital Cuddle® Mustang 2 Brown, C3 Beige, C3 Black
• Main fabric sewn LIVE: Quilting Cuddle® in Stonewash Cloudy and Stonewash Jewel, , C3 Fuschia, Quilting Cuddle® Wanderlust Paisley in Pink

List of materials:

• Quilting Cuddle®, C3 Cuddle® or Digital Cuddle® for exterior, and binding
• Foam Bag interfacing such as By Annie Soft N Stable or other Flex Foam
• Odif 505 Temporary Adhesive Spray or Glue Stick
• #5 zipper and two zipper pulls, plus bag hardware and 1.5” wide webbing or premade straps
• 90/14 Stretch machine needle
• Glide 40 wt Polyester Thread, or Bonded Polyester Tex 35 thread
• Permanent Felt tip marker
• Rotary cutter and mat r
• Micro-serrated scissors
• Clover flower head pins
• Clover Wonder clips

The Knot and Thread Patchwork Duffle Bag is a pattern for a wonderfully roomy duffle bag. It is perfect for going to the gym, overnight trips, school events and picnics! You can follow the pattern and patchwork the outer bag with your favorite Cuddle@ scraps from previous projects, or follow the directional fabric instructions for using a single piece of fabric. A simpler, smaller Duffle is the Bodobo bags Simple Mini Duffle because it starts with Fat Quarters and gives you the practice of quilting layers together and sewing thicker layers together. Your layers of fabric are quilted together, making a wonderful playground for surface embellishments, machine embroidery quilting, or even serger quilting. Using Shannon Fabrics Cuddle® means that the possibilities for quilting and getting wonderful textural effects are endless. These Duffle Bags are fully lined and you can use coordinating Cuddle® fabrics for the pockets and binding to get a truly boutique look.