Likeflowersandbutterflies: Patching

I have been doing this for a long time now, at least in my head....some patching....
Making patchwork and patched things is something that beside a few clothes I did here and there and there and even a bit very proudly there, wasn't in my sewing "must do" list. I suppose that people in the fabric world are usually orientated toward clothes or toward quilts. But I think that doing quilts is much more appreciated as every fabric line has a quilt or quilts going with the line, showing the way prints can be matched. So, as I am becoming truly obsessed with fabric design, I think it's about the time to become a bit more obsessed with quilts and patchwork.

And ever since I saw this bag, I knew that I have to try something like that in fabric.

I have started with two fabrics, first light grey animal fabric is my own fabric(the first fabric I designed on Spoonflower), available here and the other cherry blossom is Alexander Henry fabric.

I cut the 2"(5 cm) stripes and sew them alternately.

Then I did that sort of honeycomb cathedral stitching that looks like smocked. I am sure that that style exists with the proper name in the quilting world and would love to know how it is actually called.