Cosmo Bag

This is the finished Cosmo Bag and unfortunately, the pictures do not do it justice. I was having technical difficulties which I suspect are from user error not equipment malfunction :) Anyway, the bag was easy to sew up and is huge. The yoga mat is in there for scale because it's hard to tell the size just on the pictures alone. I've made enough Amy Butler bags now to know how to change the interfacing to my specifications so this bag is lined more heavily than is actually called for on the original pattern. I would definitely make this bag again and will be using it for weekend trips, yoga or the grocery store.

P.S. I forgot to mention that this is yet another bag from Amy Butler's book "Style Stitches." I am certainly getting my moneys worth out of that book :)

Post-Christmas Burnout

After Christmas was over I pretty much just creatively flatlined. Nothing was inspiring me and then the new year started with a surprising series of intense events so nothing was getting sewn, pasted, painted, etched or printed! Slowly but surely though, the itch to work with fabric is coming back. Unsurprisingly, Amy Butler's Cosmo bag from "Style Stitches" is what brought me back :) I've been wanting to make this bag for a while now because it's about the size of a kitchen sink which is perfect for all my yoga stuff or beach stuff or groceries, etc. Right now, it's a work in progress but soon I'll be back to post the finished project!