Tuesday, December 21, 2010

the $75 purse...

Well, I bought this awesome book by Amy Butler, Style Stitches, which has a myriad of purse patterns. This past fall I also bought some fabric from my beloved hometown quilt store, Pine Needles to make one such pattern... Uber-awesome Moda home decor fabric in a fall color I just love, plus interfacing, hardware, etc... Total bill for purse? $75.

Pattern seemed easy enough, only 17 steps... OH WAIT.... 17 steps in the pattern, with multiple substeps and oh by the way you must repeat some steps... UGH ... Time to make? (I hate to even ADMIT this) it took about 10 hours over 2 separate weekends. But last Sunday I finally finished it. And of course its way bigger than I thought it would be, even having SEEN the picture in book. Oh well. I have to use it now, it cost me $75 and 10 hours of my life!

1 comment:

Mary Stubblefield said...

that's awesome....I have found a friend (or acquaintance) that makes purses so when I wanted a specific style I took the easy way out and just bought one of hers....I hope to become talented enough to make myself something one day!