Christine's Bag

At the beginning of June, our niece graduated from high school.  Last year, I had made our two graduating nieces each a travel bag.  Since this niece, Christine, is also my husband's goddaughter, I wanted to switch it up a bit and give her a choice of fabrics, etc.  (We also gave her a gift of money.)

Well, Christine had just been given a travel bag as a Christmas gift, so she didn't really need another travel bag (although I'm sure mine would have been way better).  So, we went surfing around looking at patterns and settled on this one.  It's a nice roomy bag and it has lots of pockets (8, I think) inside, for containing whatever might need to be contained. 

Christine also picked out the main fabric.  It is the Modern Meadow line designed by Joel Dewberry.  I really like this fabric, too.  If I weren't on a fabric diet, I would be ordering some of it for myself right now.

Regarding the pattern...  It really wasn't a difficult bag to sew.  That being said, I think that anyone sewing this pattern might need a basic knowledge of what I would consider more "big-box" commercially based patterns to do this.  I say this because the pattern does not list out all of the little details like marking the fabric from the pattern on the matching dots, etc. Would you still be able to sew this pattern?  Sure, it just isn't as completely detailed as some of the other newer "designer" patterns out there. 

I didn't think the pattern was all that difficult and it didn't take all that much time either.  I think it took just as much time to cut all of the pieces out (I really do not enjoy the cutting out of the pieces!).  Plus, I think I'll be able to use this pattern again... one of my cousins is having a baby and has requested a John Deere diaper bag.  Now, this might not be the style she's wanting, but since it is technically a diaper bag pattern, this is what she'll be getting.

I really like this bag and I'm going to have a hard time shipping it out this week!