Reversible handbag

Check it out!

I made a reversible bag.
AND it didn't actually take me that long.

The pattern is for the flea market bag from Grand Revival Design. I bought the pattern online but can't for the life of me remember from which website.

The fabrics are from Ikea. Of course.

Behold, a pocket! The pattern says you could do a pocket on both fabrics but I chose to only do one on the fabric I chose for the inside of the bag. Because I'm like that. Caution. Wind.

I am not going to go into how long it took me to understand the instructions for making the pocket. Let's just say it erred on the side of embarrassing.

Things I learnt from this project:
- reading patterns.
- reading instructions on patterns

I cut the pattern out incorrectly because I simply didn't understand the illustration OR written instructions. But by incorrect I mean it simply took me longer and probably wasn't as neat as if I'd done it as per the instructions.

I didn't like the t.h.r.e.e possible strap lengths the pattern offered so made up my own, thinking it would be inbetween the messenger (cross over your body) length and shoulder length. It was too short. Who knows what I did. Anyway, it made me more creative because I used some orange fabric I had that I'm trying to use everywhere in my life.

Look at the button loop which I also did in the orange fabric! Here I did get creative because I wanted it to be longer than that of the pattern. This final loop was the third attempt. Turns out I'm as shite at cutting fabric as I am reading patterns.

I got quite confused on how to join the two bags together, until I realised what the pattern was telling me and just how goddamn easy it was. Look at that kicky pocket inside that jaunty bag!

I can't tell you how happy I am with this. So. So happy.