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Weekender Bag
I finished sewing the outside of the bag together!
I had to chop a couple extra inches off the bottom panel, which seemed odd to me, but I measured several times and in the end it fit, so I have no idea why the pattern suggested that piece be so big. At first I thought I might have cut the other pieces too small, but I was pretty careful, and when I went back to measure the pattern pieces, it seemed I had done it correctly. Plus the extra amount seemed way too much to be explained by a slight cutting error; something like 2".
I also had to rip and re-stitch a few times to make sure I was stitching close enough to the piping all the way around. But now it looks good and I am happy with it.
Now I need to sew the lining together (remembering to make the lining bottom panel smaller, too!) and insert it, and then it'll be done.
I had to chop a couple extra inches off the bottom panel, which seemed odd to me, but I measured several times and in the end it fit, so I have no idea why the pattern suggested that piece be so big. At first I thought I might have cut the other pieces too small, but I was pretty careful, and when I went back to measure the pattern pieces, it seemed I had done it correctly. Plus the extra amount seemed way too much to be explained by a slight cutting error; something like 2".
I also had to rip and re-stitch a few times to make sure I was stitching close enough to the piping all the way around. But now it looks good and I am happy with it.
Now I need to sew the lining together (remembering to make the lining bottom panel smaller, too!) and insert it, and then it'll be done.