My First Handbag

I am so excited to finally share my first handbag!!! I wanted to make a handbag for myself for a while but always felt like there were more pressing projects. Such as clothes for my kids or a gift for someone or even maternity clothes for myself. But, after winning an awesome giveaway from The Polkadot Chair, I could not put it off any longer. The giveaway include this wonderful and extremely resourceful book by Bari J. Ackerman called "Inspired to Sew" along with an online class taught by Bari and a discount to Fabric.com. During the online class Bari walks you through the handbag pattern step by step. One of her focuses is to help you overcome your zipper phobea, which I had. Not anymore!!! After watching the video a few times and using the instructions in the book...I'm very confident I could sew a zipper in anything!! So enough jabber, here is my first handbag!!!

Sneak Peek

So, I have been kind of lucky lately!! I have won two blog giveaways in the past two months!! Both were for a sewing book and the last one also included an online sewing class for a fun handbag. I am also going to learn how to sew a zipper which is one of the reasons I signed up for the giveaway. The book is "Inspired to Sew" by Bari J. Akerman. Oh yeah, I also got a 15% discount to Fabric.com with the giveaway too!!! I will taking the class the 3rd week on August and here is a peek at the fabric I will be using.

Impressions Collection for Ty Pennington