Fortunately, I remembered seeing a tutorial in a book I bought a couple of years back, called, Simple Sewing: Patterns and How-To for 24 Fresh and Easy Projects by Lotta Jansdotter. I bought the book because of a 40% coupon I had at JoAnn's one day and I was impressed with the cute designs and the simplicity of the patterns throughout. This was my first time actually trying a tutorial, however (I know, after two years! I'm a bit of a procrastinator sometimes).
The first step was deciding on what fabrics I wanted to use. I didn't want to go for something too simple.... I thought this project was a great opportunity to go for some really fun patterns! For the bulk of the piece, I stumbled across a maxi skirt in my closet that I originally found at a thrift store months back-- I've always loved the bright floral on black pattern, but the fit of the skirt was awful, so I thought it was the perfect candidate for the focal point of my bag! It was a little difficult to cut it evenly, because of the tapered panels, but I managed to make it work. The rest of the fabric, I took as remnants from other projects I've done.
I tweaked the dimensions from the tutorial a bit, so that I could utilize a bigger pocket for my gloves/keys/phone, and I added a flap with a magnetic closure (I can get a little paranoid about things falling out, since I'm prone to have that happen).
It closes with a draw cord, which I was lucky enough to just have a spare one lying around. I went a little fancy and kept the ends a bit long, threading a few wooden beads to the cords, to dress it up a little bit.
All in all, I was incredibly happy with how easy the tutorial was to follow and how great my bag turned out! This is definitely inspiration for me to start doing more of the projects from the book (some great gift ideas, for sure). I can't wait to start bringing my new bag to class!
*Sings the Sparrow
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