It may not sound that hard to many, but making a bag was a real challenge. As you can see from the picture to the left it was a bag where its main design was pleats. Let me tell you, pleats are not easy or fun to do. I lost count how may times I'd pinned and unpinned each pleat, poked myself with pins many times in the process, ironed until my hands went wrinkly from the the steam and yime lost all meaning when i realised that I'd completely stuffed up and i had to unpick everything and start again.
I have much more respect for proffessional seamstresses and anyone who has the tenacity to take on a large sewing operation.
Even though this was incredibly hard to make, there's nothing like the feeling of finally achieving something that's been at the back of your mind for weeks. It is a very beautiful design of bag called the 'Estelle Handbag', and the fabulous thing is that the pattern and instructions are yours for free on http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns?filter=117&sortby=mostrecent. You will need rather a lot of material for the outer bag, the pleats take up a fair bit. And I warn you now, the pattern is straightforward but the assembly instructions are rather incomprehensible, to me at least. I believe that the pattern and instructions were originally written in German and that many deatails were 'lost in translation'. Hopefully you'll be able to soldier on if you attempt this bag, but feel free to ask questions if you need a hand. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer them but I'll give it a shot.
Hope you find the pattern easier than I did.
February 23, 2009
I achieved the impossible: I sewed a handbag
It may not sound that hard to many, but making a bag was a real challenge. As you can see from the picture to the left it was a bag where its main design was pleats. Let me tell you, pleats are not easy or fun to do. I lost count how may times I'd pinned and unpinned each pleat, poked myself with pins many times in the process, ironed until my hands went wrinkly from the the steam and yime lost all meaning when i realised that I'd completely stuffed up and i had to unpick everything and start again.
I have much more respect for proffessional seamstresses and anyone who has the tenacity to take on a large sewing operation.
Even though this was incredibly hard to make, there's nothing like the feeling of finally achieving something that's been at the back of your mind for weeks. It is a very beautiful design of bag called the 'Estelle Handbag', and the fabulous thing is that the pattern and instructions are yours for free on http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns?filter=117&sortby=mostrecent. You will need rather a lot of material for the outer bag, the pleats take up a fair bit. And I warn you now, the pattern is straightforward but the assembly instructions are rather incomprehensible, to me at least. I believe that the pattern and instructions were originally written in German and that many deatails were 'lost in translation'. Hopefully you'll be able to soldier on if you attempt this bag, but feel free to ask questions if you need a hand. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer them but I'll give it a shot.
Hope you find the pattern easier than I did.
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Heebie jeebies. that bag looks comlpicated. Not my kinda colours but i sure like the pattern. I really like the belty kinda thing around the top/middle. Go go go kelly!
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