Little Zippy Bag Swap

A few months ago, I took a DEEP breath,

and signed up for a bag swap.

It was a bit scary, as it was to be a bag with a ZIPPER....

and not only have I not made many bags,

but I think I MIGHT have sewn in a zipper one other time.

And that was YEARS ago.

I looked at a lot of different tutorials and patterns online,

but I couldn't find one I was comfortable with at first.

I had sent an email to my swap partner, and didn't hear back from her for a long time,

so I sort of put it out of my mind.

Then I did hear from her, so I wrote back to answer her questions & ask some of my own,

and never got an answer.

And I forgot about it again.

Then I got a squishie in the mail!

Isn't it amazing?

I love it.

It's big enough to hold a cone of yarn,

my TomTom, a CD, and

a bunch of other stuff!

I've been using it every day.

One problem.

Now I'm totally intimidated

about getting the bag done to send back to her.

I looked through the pattern books at JoAnn's,

and bought a pattern for a laptop case-type bag.

But, they didn't have all the hardware to go with it.

So I started looking online again,

and I finally found one that I thought

that I could do successfully.

And I did!

But, it was a small bag,

and that intimidation thing kicked in again,

so I also made a crocheted string bag

and a small crocheted pouch

to go with it.

They should arrive by Wednesday.

(I had emailed her to let her know that I would be very late.)

So, after Wednesday,

I'll post pictures of what I sent to her.

I hope she likes them.

<sigh>

sue