I made this bag for a silent auction to benefit my son's Hockey team. It turned out cute, but was a pain to make. Everything that could go wrong did. I had picked some upholstery fabric to use in the beginning. I had the whole bag cut out and tried to iron the interfacing on. First, I burned the fabric... learned you can't set your iron so high with this type of upholstery fabric. Re-cut the piece, tried to iron on the interfacing again... my interfacing wouldn't stick to the fabric. Ugh. So, I threw all the upholstery fabric in the circular file and proceeded to begin all over again with regular cotton fabric. Then the pattern was incorrect on the pleat placement... I had to do a bunch of modifications.
Lesson learned, never try a new pattern when you are in a time crunch! Everything that can go wrong, will!!!!!
Vintage buttons from my Grandma Heiden!
It turned out cute, but smaller than I had hoped.
Glad it all came together in the end... I almost gave up on this one!
