Purse

Pink Purse...

For my birthday last year, my mom took my sister and I to The Homestead in Glen Lake, Michigan.  It was a beautiful place.  While we were shopping in the quaint shop called The Cottonseed, I found the cutest hot pink/fuchsia purse.  I got a lot of complements on the purse.  Sadly, it started to fall apart in the first few months. The Cottonseed gave me a full refund and paid for the shipping too! 

So, for this project, I decided to find that pink color and make the bag out of it.  I took the free pattern from Field’s Fabrics and just scaled it down.  I think I made it a bit too small to make it functional for me. I may try a size in between the ruffle bag and this one.

Ruffle Bag

   

 My Mom asked about my blog tonight when I was over there for dinner. It made me realize it has been a bit since I posted anything. So here goes...

I got a sewing machine for Christmas and I love it. It is a Husqvarna H-Class 100Q. It is funny to think that when I was growing up my Mom wanted to teach me to sew and I wasn’t interested. It is funny how much you change as you get older. I find myself excited to try new things and sometimes impatient to learn the right steps. I call my mom all the time for sewing lessons, but it can be difficult for me to understand and difficult for her to explain the next step on the phone. Lucky for me she does come over and give me lessons whenever she can.

This is the bag that I made using the free pattern from Field’s Fabrics. I got the ruffle idea from a pin on Pinterest which leads you to Ucreate blog. This tutorial has you buying a premade bag and adding the ruffles and rosettes.

My first attempt at the bag was not good. I ended up ripping it apart and starting over...thank goodness for the trusty seam ripper. When giving it another try, I thought through the steps before putting the bag together.

I cut out the pieces to the bag and before sewing the two sides together, I added the ruffles, so the edges are nice and neat. I attached my rosettes with a glue gun. I added the rosettes after watching this rosette video tutorial .