Josephine Sews

I saw this bag on the sew4home website a few years back and fell in love with it.  My tween niece came to spend a week with me a few weeks back and I noticed she was in desperate of a new purse.  Since I was already going to make her a few items for the up coming school year, I asked did she want me to make her a purse also - of course she said yes.   Canteen Bag (sew4home.com) How I Did It Sew4Home have detailed instructions - I will show construction pictures and notes about issues I ran into. All fabric came from leftover fabric from other projects.  Sew4Home did this bag in a couple different fabrics and I really loved the fabric in the picture below and decided to recreate it. My Fabric Inspiration I cut the main fabric out of a deep dark navy denim.  Since my favorite color is purple and one of her favorite colors is purple, I decided to use that color as my guide (selfish I know).   I used a design included with my machine and embroidered it using

I've done a million of these (okay not a million but a lot). I won't bore you with the same details just the pictures.  The elephant designs are from Bunnycup - Little Jumbo .  The bib and burp cloth designs may be Bunnycup also.