Fancy Birthday and Christmas Presents!

As promised, here's are some of my Buttercup Bags! The first one is my first one at a larger size and my first one with a zipper. It is 129% bigger than the original Made by Rae Buttercup bag. There's a turtorial at Craftster.org. I made this on for my friend Alexis for her birthday! (and I'm excited to see that Alexis is my first follower!! Hi Alexis!)

Here' a detail shot:

The inside (don't worry, I trimmed the threads before giving it to her):

Here's the whole purse! Complete with an extra long strap:

This is one that I made for my sister Rebecca for Christmas. She picked out the dotted material, but didn't know what kind of bag I was making for her. I added the striped material, they were next to each other at Hobby Lobby. :-)

Here's a detail shot:

Here's the interior...the stripes almost lined up!!:

Here's the whole bag!:

Fancy Messenger Bag

Here's my first attempt at a messenger bag...with a zipper!!! This is my first zipper ever and I'm pretty proud! I used a combination of 2 tutorials from craftster.org to help me out. I mostly used this one TUTORIAL: messenger bag with zippered divider (many pics) with the gusset idea from this one messenger bag with gusset tutorial. I like how it turned out. Please ignore the fact that it is wrinkly, I washed it and didn't feel like ironing it again.

First, here's a peek at the main fabric:

Here's my first zipper!! (isn't it pretty?):

Here's two pics of the inside. Zipper closed and zipper open:

Here's the whole bag open (I had some snap issues):

Here it is closed:

This bag seemed like it took forever, but I learned so much, so it was a good project for me. Ok, next post will be the start of the Buttercup bags I made for Christmas presents!

Fancy Little Buttercup Bag

One of my favorite blogs is Made by Rae. Rae made this wonderful pattern for what she calls the Buttercup Bag and the pattern is FREE!! Here's my first go at it and I loved it so much that I made it many more times as Christmas presents.

First, here's the lining:

A button:

Here's the whole bag:

And here's the inside:

My next few posts will probably be lots more Buttercup Bags :-)

Fancy Jordy Bag

Here's my first step back into sewing. It's based on the Jordy Bag Tutorial found on Craftster.org http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=32204.0. It's small, but cute.

First, here's the lining:

Close-up of the button and ribbon closure:

Finally, here's the whole bag:

Fancy Adventures

Ok, I thought I would try out this blog thing. I will post pictures of my sewing and crafting adventures. I recently picked up sewing (again) and I am loving it. Right now, I have been exploring some great blogs out there and trying out their great patterns. This will be an adventure...a fancy adventure.