One UFO is finished.

I have been playing with this bag for a long long time.
Some kind angel or WOF mate gave me the fabrics and some beads and embroidery threads to go with it.
They looked so lovely together and while this pink is the one on my danger zone, I decided to live dangerously outside my comfort zone.

I have no idea why it took so long, except I was making up things and learning things as I went.
I have never used pleats in the front of a bag before.

Nor have I used this lovely trick with the handles before. It comes from a Kaye Wood TV tutorial with Joan Hawly of Lazy Gal bags.





I asked someone about doing an embroidery on the front and the answer was somewhat on the scale of negative, so put it aside again. Another friend said, but I see the raw edges of the pleats.
So we solved those two when I found the right embroidery and the right colors and did the quilting down the length of the bag. No more raw edges.

One effective embroidery.

Then I got to the lining stage. A stage that often leaves me a little worse for wear. But I watched the tutorials again. monkee see & monkee do....and we went a little further. Ditto with the handles.


And even the pockets.





So here is a back pocket with some white lace flowers, it will fit a phone or keys, and then if you can cope with this burst of pink.......it looks somewhat like a medical horror story, but there
are two pockets. The top one is divided and the one on the other side is just one big pocket.
We did not get into zippers this time and it does not drastically need a clasp. We may go to Velcro later.

But it is finished.....