Assuming you're a chick (female) and on that assumption another follows: that you love to shop. With that in mind, the links on this page all take you to either Amazon.com or Joann's where you can price check or compare a purchase for that particular bold face item. I don't get credit, royalties, a kick down, annuities, a percentage, or anything else except the joy that I helped you find these wonderful things online to make your shopping experience easy and your crocheting much more fun. grinning now)
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Working with Red Heart's Stripes yarn was a lovely experience, truly. The yarn did not tangle, it is twisted (is that the correct word?) nicely so my hook went through and came back out of loops smoothly as I worked along. This colorway, denim stripe, made a perfectly "denim" looking pattern for this bag.
I lined the bag with an old but rarely (if ever) used ladies work shirt. It has cute metal flower buttons down the front and I wanted to keep them in the lining so I sewed closed the placard (button strip) with my machine.
Secondly, I sewed closed the bottom of the shirt to where there was room enough for the pockets to fit inside the bag, giving me two inside pockets that were ready made. (Yea, I AM lazy. Yeppers!)
Thirdly, the shirt wasn't quite wide enough to reach across the bottom part of the bag (before adding handle flaps) so I just eased it in and made adjustments wherever necessary. It came out a bit bunchy in the bottom but it worked out fine in the end. (get it? Fat Bottom Bag? in the end? Yea, right. Get a day job, I know. heh, heh. )
The handles look great with this bag, I got them at the only place I know to get purse handles in my area (Michael's stopped carrying them, the dirty rats!), at Joann's. They were the $4.99 variety which is fine and dandy but if you watch the ads for the store, you can get them up to 40% off and stock up on handles and other purse supplies there. (If you make Fat Bottom Bags - or any bag at all, you just have to go to a purse and bag supply sale at Joann's the first day the sale starts or there will be nothing left by the time you get there, a day later!)
The flower does not compliment the bag the way I want it to but it'll do for now. It gives me an excuse to go back to Joann's - to find an embellishment that better suits this bag.
Making this one with my mother's stand in caregiver in mind, (the one who relieves me of my duties for six hours a day twice a week!), I can't wait to present it to her, finished and ready to use. She said she had her eye on this when it was still a WIP and has no idea how it turned out so the surprise for her will be much more fun for me. (Happy, happy, joy joy! .... Tail's all wagging, lol)
On to the next FFB (That's Fat Bottom Bag for us seasoned FFB hookers, BTW), TTYL, TGIS, TTFN!
