Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Bag lady

Ever since I've been sewing, I have been churning out handbags in an effort to create the absolutely perfect bag.

Appropriately enough, this one, which I love enough to have made it twice, comes from the book The Perfect Bag, which I borrowed from the library. I love this bag because it's big enough to hold a paperback and is designed so it's easy to use several different fabrics.

For this version, which I slapped together over two evenings, I used a couple of small pieces of quilting cottons given to me by my boss (OK, his wife) last Christmas, along with a stripe from my stash and a giant pink button, also from my stash. My favorite feature of this version is the pleated pocked, where I stash my cell phone.

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