weekender bag so far

I was able to spend some time on my bag over the weekend.



I topstitched the Peltex to the main panels, added the handles, then added the large pockets and sewed the piping around the perimeter.  It took me about 20 minutes just to align the handles properly.  For some reason, they kept ending up crooked!  Even though I measured over and over.  I also assembled the side (end) pockets.  This is all I can do until my zipper arrives.

I used binder clips to secure the layers instead of pins.  The instructions direct you to do this later, but I thought it was bulky enough now to need them.



Annoying, minor thing that no one but me will ever notice: on most of the pieces, my layers shifted a bit, so instead of lying perfectly flat, there is this teeny little bagginess on one side or other, and on a couple pieces there is a little wrinkle or bump where two lines of stitching meet.  It is not nearly as bad as before I ripped and hand-basted, but it is enough so that I notice.

I am really trying not to let it bug me.  It is good enough.  Sometimes I wish I sewed more projects that were better than 'good enough.'  But I know that it's oftentimes a choice between a finished, good enough project and a perfect one that is never finished.