A Sewing Project

 

Earlier this year I ordered a pattern and kit for a tote on Etsy.  (I may have made a special request for the color because I don't see it in the listing.)  I finally sat down and made it and I think I found a new favorite tote pattern.  The pattern comes in three sizes (I made the Medium) and is extremely well written.  I made a mistake making it because I totally misread a diagram but that's completely my fault.  If I had read the sentences below the diagram (the ones explaining the diagram) I could have also avoided the mistake, but apparently I felt that I didn't need to read the directions.  I'm not going to point out what the mistake is because I believe that 99% of the time if we don't point out our mistakes no one else ever notices anyway.

There are two slip pockets and a zip pocket inside the tote and one slip pocket outside the tote.  The fabrics sent with the kit are seriously heavy duty canvas and I think that (along with cockroaches, of course) if the apocalypse were to happen today, this tote would survive.  Yeah, it's a pretty sturdy tote.  I used a Jeans needle in my sewing machine along with heavy duty thread and it had no problem sewing through all the layers.

It was a fun project and I'm really happy with the finished bag, even if I didn't quite do it right.  I will definitely be making some more of these - I've been checking out some of the Home Dec canvas prints online!

Oh, and just BTW, I purchased the kit with my own money and was not compensated in any way for this blog post.  All opinions are my own.  (This is true for all of my blog posts - no one tells me my opinion!)