Handmade bowler style handbag/Purse - The Boronia Bag from Blue Calla Patterns Whatabout ye folks, it's Lee here. Back with another handmade bag following Blue Calla Pattern . This one is a bowler style bag, called the Boronia . As usual, Celine's patterns are fantastic and her video tutorials are my life-line, lol. I LOVE this bag! This was meant to be just my tester bag as I hadn't made this pattern before....oh who am I kidding...everything I make is a tester as I am new to all this sewing stuff, teehee. So, I was making this one really as a tester, but I just love how it turned out, that I had to share it. I love how wide the bag can open and how much space there is in it. I am already planning on making a second one. I have the fabrics picked out and all, teehee. I had previously made a large tote bag from this Sloth fabric last Christmas that I gave to my wee brother's girlfriend, Rose. I loved the fabric design so much that I was lucky to find some m
Handmade handbag - Passion Flower Tote from Blue Calla patterns Whatabout ye folks, it's Lee here. Back with another Passion Flower Tote bag from Blue Calla Patterns . I loved making the first one that I gave to our wee Mamma for Christmas so much that I wanted to make myself one too, lol. Our wee Mamma loved it by the way. She didn't actually believe that I had made it......which could be taken in a couple of ways, teehee.....but I took it as a compliment and we had a good giggle about it, lol. Now.......I did make a couple of silly mistakes when I made this particular bag, but that was on me, not the pattern. As I made the first one, I was pretty confident and thought that I didn't need to look at the instructions again and I made a silly little mistake with the rivets on the straps and sewing over them on the top stitching at the top. But it's ok.....it's for me and I promise, I won't judge myself........much! teehee. I will most likely go back in a