A couple of years ago I decided I was going to learn how to sew, so I went and bought a few purse patterns and some cheap fabric and began playing. I knew the basics of sewing since my grandmother had taught me many years before but still had to look at my manual every time I tried to tread my machine. Well, I cutout those patterns and sewed and tore out stitches and resewed and eventually made a couple of bags that looked kind of like the picture on the front of the pattern. Then I saw a couple of bags that fellow bloggers had designed and thought, I could do that! So now I've been making my own purses and diaper bags for several years now and I don't follow any kind of pattern, I just make it up as I go along. This way sewing is much more enjoyable and I'm not always trying to figure out what someone else was trying to explain, poorly I might add, but figuring out how to make it work myself . Although I have had some epic failures most things have turned out better than I expected, of course maybe I just have really low expectations of myself! lol
