My 3rd sewing machine project, and my favourite so far – and I did this one over the course of 3 evenings after work, officially migrating this away from being a weekend-only hobby (where it had resided whilst it was brand new and required huge levels of concentration not generally present after a day in the office!)
As the basis, I used the same pattern from danamadeit that I used for my last bag – I clearly didn’t follow it precisely, as usual (!) but it’s really useful for covering the key steps you need to follow.
I was so pleased with this one that I took the bold step of showing it off to a number of friends at work – one of whom even asked me if I might make her one! I wondered whether this could be dangerous – setting a precedent of “taking orders”, which could lead to either sewing a load of stuff I don’t want to, or having to say no to some people having said yes to others – however I’ve decided it’s a brilliant way to get more practice without filling up my house with an enormous number of tote bags (I think a girl can genuinely have too many tote bags…). And for the time being, I’ll take payment in cups of coffee in the office, or perhaps a glass of something stronger down the road…
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