The Biggest Coin Purse Ever

I thought that I would try my hand at making a bag just using my trusty imagination. I always have lots of ideas for new bags, the problem is getting them from my mind into fabric that seems to be the issue. I do not call myself a seamstress and I often have qustions for my mother if I am making anything that is new and requires more than just a few straight stitches. But I was actually able to take a simple idea that I had and turn it into a creation. I was pleased with the way that it turned out but I am sure that I made it much more difficult than it needed to be. I made this little bag for my daughter. She loves purses and bags and I thought that she would enjoy this. It is jus a simple drawstring purse but the top is a different material than the bottom and it has ribbon handles. I also played with the gussets to see if I could give it some shape, and it worked! I have big plans for my gusset skills... My daughter was delighted with her new bag and I found it the other day sitting on top of her dresser with every piece of change that she could find in it. When I asked her about it she told me that it was her coin purse. I just smiled, that would be one heavy coin purse if she even got it halfway filled! I didn't make a pattern for it and that was probably my first mistake. I have a few patterns that I am working on for big bags, or purses, or diaper bags, whatever you want to use them for. I am super excited and can't wait to get them done to show you, I know that you will like them.

Here are a few more bags that have been completed. I know that there are pictures of this fabric in the slide show but it is always nice to see the finished product, sometimes it can be hard to picture it.