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Slouchy Hobos
Friday, October 07, 2005
It never did get bright enough to take a decent picture of this bag yesterday. Then there was a headache. I did actually *start* another bag with an embellishment, but didn't get very far before I decided it just wasn't worth the strain.
Not at all.
If you read through the entire 18 pages of the Slouchy Hobo Bag tutorial thread at Craftster (you did notice the 18 pages of discussion, right?), you saw numerous lovely examples of this bag. I'm amazed at the ingenuity and sheer, well, craftiness of the posters on that board. Phenomenol talent there!
My first bag is a bit too large. I cut my zipper to 14 inches. This second one is to be 12 inches, as specified in the tutorial. It's still the same black ostrich pleather, but I'm trying to dress it up a tiny bit. I'm hoping it will be good enough to gift.
This first one is good enough to gift, but not to the person I have in mind. It's fine, I just want this second one to be a little fancier. I know it looks good because the DH even noticed it.
We went to a restaurant last night and I laid it on the table for a minute.
DH: "Where did you get that bag?"
Me: "I made it last night."
DH: "Wow!"
Then he asked me if I killed the ostrich and the conversation from there would not interest you...
<< sigh >>