Finished! All I have to do is get some crafty stuff to go with it, and I know where I'm going to get that tomorrow.
I made a couple of changes to the original instructions. I used a layer of fleece, instead of brushed cotton, to give the bag a bit more shape. I added pockets to the interior and made the handle casings like patch pockets as my lining fabric was quite thin.
I elongated the handles by a few inches and made them up as tubes, rather than topstitched strips. I then cut and stretched a piece of fleece to make it roll up and threaded it through the handles to stuff them. I gathered the handle tubes up a bit over the fleece to make them wrinkly.
Instead of adding a ribbon around the bag iIappliqued and embroidered the front with some flowers and added buttons. I machine embroidered some wavy green lines across the back of the bag.
I added a ribbon tie to help keep the bag closed and made a matching zipper pouch to go with it. I hope my partner likes it! I should get it sent off early this week.... then just got to get 140+ school reports written in Spanish - eek!
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