Lordy. I’ve been promising I would make me a new bag to carry my stuff for japanese class for ages. And yesterday, I finally did it. God it’s lovely. Here be my wisdom: interfacing is very very necessary, pressing likewise (all hail the sleeveboard), and how in god’s name did I manage without a rotary cutter and a cutting mat?
Of course none of this would have been possible if it weren’t for U-handbag which I stumbled across last year having decided to make a bag to carry around my japanese stuff. It’s run by a lovely woman called Lisa, who helpfully includes a tutorial to make a basket style bag on her site…I thought it would be perfect. So after several messings with dimensions and patterns, and getting it just plain wrong a few times, I’ve finally ended up with the perfect bag. It easily carries an A4 folder, and pencil case, and dictionary, and keys, and purse, and damn it’s pretty.
But I couldn’t make just one, could I? No, I just want to keep on making them. It’s so bloody satisfying – at heart I’m a bag girl. I do love shoes, don’t get me wrong, but a bag does something for me a shoe just can’t. Anyway, I sent pictures of the last bag I made over to Lisa and now it’s on her blog . Incidentally if you want to make a bag yourself, you should check out the tutorials she has on her site, becasue they’re so easy to follow. Everything I know I know from her 
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Wow – another great bag! I like the way it’s in keeping with the Japanese theme.
Ohhh! Me LIKE! I’d have to agree with you, that is without doubt the perfect receptacle for your Japanese stuff.
Definitely top of the ‘bag making’ class
Hope you’re other studies are going just as well.
Thanks heaps for your comment on my bag draw post.
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Thanks both of you! It was something of a spur of the moment decision to finally make it, and the fastest I’ve managed it yet
Yes. Back to other studies. Quite right…