It's official. I'm a seamstress!

I have a tendency to enthusiastically decide to learn a new skill, become obsessed with the new skill, then fail to fully cultivate said skill. Take for instance the web design course I took this fall. Here we are, six months later, and I have yet to build and relocate this blog to the Wordpress site of my dreams. And my college minor in German. Oh, and that grant writing class. I've written tons of grants. That's a lie.

But this instance, I've outsmarted my own tendencies, and followed through. After months of messing around with aprons, and totes and curtain hems, I hereby proclaim that I have graduated from Sewing 101, and have achieved intermediate status. Behold, the purse:

This masterpiece combined a variety of elements that I'd never encountered: like fusible interfacing. You should have seen the look I got at the snooty fabric shop when I asked about it. Well, snooty fabric ladies, look at my adorable fricking purse. That's what I thought. I also inserted my first magnetic closure, my first non-ghetto liner, some pleats, and performed some crazy inside-out flipping action. I found the pattern in a new book called One Yard Wonders that I'm looking forward to exploring further.









So what's next? I've got a wallet in the works, and I can't wait to dive into this one. Advanced intermediate level, here I come.