Okay, I expect that it is not a surprise at all.  The biggest surprise is that I’ve sewn something mid-week!

I’m still really experimenting with shapes, fabrics, and interfacings.  I’m fairly happy with the shape of this one – it’s from tiny happy‘s  tutorial – but I need to work on my choice of interfacing.  I think that I need to spend more on better quality woven or knit fusible interfacing, rather than using the cheaper stuff.  I interfaced both the outer fabric and the lining, which has helped with the structure of the bag, but the fabric seems to bubble a bit.

Here’s the inside – with magnetic snap, and internal pockets both sides.

And another view.

I made the bag a little deeper than the original pattern.   It was very quick and simple to make, which is a bonus.

The other sewing question on my mind has been which comes first, the choice of pattern/design, or the choice of fabric?  I don’t want to waste good fabric on designs that I’m not finally happy with, but also when you put so much time into sewing something, it’s important to also like the fabric!  At least the stash is shrinking . . .