Anyway... I don't do purses. For years I have carried some version of a messenger bag and refused to call it a purse. So I was looking for a knitting project and I thought: MESSENGER BAG! But then I thought: "I would like something a little smaller for summer". From these thoughts came this:
I made it from crafting cotton and made up the pattern as I went. I wanted the strap to be long enough to wear it across my body (like a messenger bag and NOT a purse). Stupidly, however, I did not account for the fact that when the bag was full of stuff the strap would stretch. I had to do some surgery on the strap to shorten it. I could have bought a buckle but lazily just covered up the seam with a sort of fake knitted buckle-like thing.
The bag (NOT purse) is lumpy because I photographed it after I put all my stuff in it (ipod, cell phone, keys, wallet).
I lined it with this beautiful fabric I bought ages ago, and never did anything with because sewing scares the crap out of me!
O.K. so it's more purse-like than messenger bag-like but it can't be a purse 'cause I don't carry those. Never have, never will.
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