A New Purse

Lately I have been seeing so many homemade purses and bags around and I wanted to make one of my own, but was unable to find a pattern that I really liked...at least liked enough to bother trying. I wanted to take on this challenge because you can make it your own, and pick out fabrics that you like...its personalized :) But, I became succesful this past weekend when I discovered that Fabricland had a massive sale on all of their in-stock fabrics. Everything in the store was 50%...so those designer fabrics that cost a pretty penny suddenly floated down the line into my price range. I picked up some fabric and patterns to make both myself and my darling daughter sundresses for the summer (no, they don't match) and while I was shopping I fell in love with a certain fabric. I carried it in my mind through out my whole trip there and I really wanted to purchase it. However, I didn't want to purchase the fabric with no pattern to use so I flipped through the pattern books and found nothing I really liked. And then I thought : "The fabric is 50% off today....and it won't be tomorrow". So I purchased a couple meters with the hopes of converting it into a bag once I found a design I liked. I headed to another store to shop for a sewing machine (which will be my birthday, mothers day and anniversary present from my husband, family and girlfriend). I was just looking for what I would like to one day have. While I was there, I checked out what they had for patterns, and found one that I liked and thought would fit the fabric I chose quite well. This is what I came up with :

Its got a button closure, and next time I am going to attempt to use a bigger button.

Its also reversible, so I can pick whichever way makes me happy that day. I kinda think that I will leave it the other way around because I like that fabric much better.

And here is a close up of the fabric.