I
got a pretty late start today, again, but I really want to finish this little
bag. All that’s left are the casings and
the straps, so I thought, surely I could do that in a short amount of time.
After
making the buttonholes last night, the front casing was ready to sew onto the
front of the bag. I found that even
though I measured the hem I took up on the casing, it didn’t fit all the way
across the top of the bag. So I sewed a
gathering stitch around the top of the bag to ease it all together.
This
worked out really well. Once it was sewn
on, I turned it to the outside, pressed it over, and stitched along the top and
under the buttonholes – I stitched that from the inside so I could stitch in
the ditch of where it was attached.
The
back casing was much easier – I still had to gather it a bit, but thankfully,
no buttonholes!
Now
the straps. It’s funny, I have never
seen a pattern piece that says “CUT 3” before!
This is because the back strap goes through just the back casing and is
stationary, but the front strap is 2 pieces sewn together to make it long- then
it is run through the front casing, with the top loop of it to stay as long as
the back strap, and the ends come out the buttonholes to be tied into a bow.
So
I won’t bore anyone with the details of the straps – they are pretty easy to
figure out, but here is the finished bag with the straps!
It
came out really cute and I think Layla is going to love it!
Now
– what to do next?
I love this cute little bag. I think you should make more cute bags only really big ones. Then I can buy one from you. Because I like really large bags. I have a problem. There is no handbags anyonymous however.
ReplyDeleteHey Chrystal - Maybe you should start Handbags Anonymous- I would join! Until I design my own patterns, I can't sell these that I am making because of commercial pattern copyright laws, but I see no reason why you can't find a pattern and material you like and I can make it for you. Just start looking! :-)
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