I'm ready to make my own petal bag pattern using the magazine pattern as a guide. This is my first attempt and out of my comfort zone. In the past this is something I would only dream and plan . Doing it would never come about. Now, after having twins and seeing all my free time practically disappear, I realize how precious time is. I'm trying to better myself, DO more instead of just thinking about it. Wouldn't it be sad if I sent my kids off to college and said, "Oh, what to do with myself; I think I have a sewing project from 18 years ago that I could work on.".
Well I'm DOING it!! I was going to start with scraps because I was afraid of ruining good fabric if I messed up. But I could only find blue-ish fabric scraps that were big enough. After much deliberating over the "good" fabric I almost gave up for another day but at the very last second I thought...RAINBOW! What color combo always works? Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, & violet!
I added one inch to the size of the petals and I'm doing 8 rows instead of 7. I'm not going to over think this; my plan is to get the rows together and make the end templates from there. It's hard for me to visualize the end result as this point but I keep telling myself, "It's just an experiment. Any mistake is correctable. If it sucks, I can redo it." And you know what? If it just doesn't work out I can reuse the fabric in something else.
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