I’m excited to announce the kick off of my first blog tour starting Monday, July 28th! For five days, 14 of my blogger friend will be sharing their versions of the bag and writing about their adventures in making it! Here she is! The Convertible/Reversible Bag! This unassuming little bag hides a secret… she can convert and reverse into 4 different…
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Welcome to day 6! Is everyone still with me? Today we will finish the frame of the basket and get ready to put it all together! The next step is to attach M and O together along their short ends. These are the pieces that make up the whole bottom and back side of the basket. And then we are going…
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Hello! Today we are going to start to construct the inner frame for our basket. Cutting the Pieces: There are a few points I want to make about cutting out the plastic canvas pieces. First, always cut the pieces so that they have flat edges on all sides once they are cut out. This may mean that you have to…
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Today is a big day because we will get both the Exterior and Interior portions of the basket sewn up! The steps for today start on page 5 of the pattern. Let’s start with our exterior pieces first – so grab your Side Panels (B&C), your Front Panel (D) and the long Bottom Panel (A). Our first order of business is…
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Hi! Today we will attach the handles and make the pockets for our basket. Let’s do the handles first – so grab those, and the exterior Side Panels (B & C). At the top edge of each Side Panel, measure and mark 4″ in from the side edges and 3″ down from the top edge. Pin each end of a handle to the…
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