Variation on Purl Bee’s 20-Minute Tote
I’ve decided to make bags. Not just any bags, but super easy peasy awesomely fast bags. I won’t have them in time for this month’s Market Day, but I will have them for next month’s (assuming July doesn’t just breeze past me and slap me in the ass on the way out like June did). The idea is to have a super cheap but adorable bag available for customers so they can have somewhere to store their goods (whether they be from me or from another vendor). I’ve heard a lot of complaints about not having bags, but the advertisements do say to bring bags. So … yeah.
Anyway, I adapted Purl Bee’s 20-Minute Tote by making my own handles and ignoring the weight of the fabric as a factor. I’m just using whatever I’ve got. This one is a prototype — I’ll probably be using super ugly fabric for the rest of them to keep the cost down (I don’t want to use my pretty fabric on low-end jobs!). I gave this one away with the baby shower gifts that I made last weekend. Also, it does just take 20 minutes. Maybe less. I guess I’m kind of speedy, but whatever. I read somebody complaining about how it doesn’t take 20 minutes somewhere on their blog, but I’d like to state that it totally does. So there. Or something.
Ta da! It’s made from the gobs and gobs of Michael Miller Lava Flowers fabric I have leftover from last year’s binge. I’m soooo sick of this print! It made an adorable bag though.

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