One Project A Month - Pretty Pinafore Purse

I bought this bag pattern back in January and on Saturday I finished bag no 9 , which I started sewing last month, so that's nine bags in five months, that's not exactly churning them out or skimping on the quality either as some people recently commented on Twitter. Yes, I use a lot of fabric that is re-purposed, mainly curtain fabric which is good quality fabric,especially Sanderson Linen. I've been recycling fabrics for years and I'm going to keep doing that, because it's what I do.

For example, this latest bag is made from linen fabric in a tapestry floral print (curtain remnant from Dunelm) with lovely piping trim on the front of the bag which fastens with a magnetic clasp, the lining is a matching brown hexagon print (re-purposed Marks and Spencer duvet cover).

The shoulder straps are made from both fabrics, one side matches the main fabric and the other side of the straps are the same as the lining fabric, I've done that with all the bags made from this pattern, you can quite clearly see the two sided straps on this bag, especially the japanese print fabric. Looking through some posts at other bags I've made, I've been sewing the two sided straps on bags since I started making Morsbags in 2008.

The binding at the top of the bag has been hand-stitched to make sure that the seams of the lining or the main fabric don't show, surely that's a sign of poor quality finishing if they are?

Here it is finished and do you know what, I'm very pleased with the finished result so I'm counting this as a finish for One Project A Month.

anyway I thought I would take a photo of the collection so far..... 

All the bags are now listed in my Etsy shop (link on the side) and three more bags are a 'work in progress, so they should be finished for about August or September!

Josie x