Today, I am very tired. Very...tired... Ok, so there are probably more of you out there more tired than me, but my tail is dragging today. I will be going to bed early tonight. But I have good reason for it. The reason I didn't go to bed until 4 AM this morning is because I was making this:
This is my flap top, clasp closure zebra zipper bag. Excuse the crappy pictures on my sewing room floor. I have been dreaming about this thing for the last 3 weeks and I finally just had to do it. The design has shifted in all different directions. The little extra elements have come and gone. And yesterday evening at work, I finally drew it out and wrote out the steps and came up with what I wanted. I'm just so excited, despite my level of tiredness, because it came out how I had dreamed! In my eyes it's just gorgeous! I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but this doesn't happen to me much!
I put a little flat zipper pocket on the back using
this tutorial from
Creating My Way to Success. The zipper around the bottom isn't functional, for trim only, and I bent the heck out of a sewing machine needle on it. Learned to do that part by turning the wheel by hand. It's amazing what uses you can find for zippers when you have a whole hoard of them. The strap is double interfaced with fusible fleece to give it some structure and padding. This comes in handy when I throw my Daddy's copy of John Steinbeck's
East of Eden in there.
I took a picture of the inside, but I just noticed that my camera decided to focus in on my arm instead of the bag, and it looks quite crappy. I'll redo that one for later. But the inside is lined in white cotton, so I can find stuff in there. The only closure to it is the clasp closure on the front, there's no zipper under the flap, but that's so I can just chunk stuff in there.
This bag was a great learning experience, as well as a great new product for my
Etsy shop! And on top of all of this, I have something cute to carry around!
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