Vacation Purse (Purse #5)

My family spent a week in Turks & Caicos at the Beaches Resort and I just knew I needed a new purse to match my bathing suit. Somehow, I thought a new purse might mask the 40lbs of baby weight I am still carrying. So, I stayed up until midnight working on this purse for the entire week before we left. Finally, one for me to keep. It worked great. It was exactly the right size and although it may not have made me appear 40lbs slimmer, it did match all of the various bathing suits. I even got several offers to buy it!

The purse and I in the Turks....one our way to town for some shopping actually.
Purse Front

Purse Front - CLOSE

Purse - Back

Total project time - 3 1/2 hours (there were a few shortcuts and mistakes that I didn't take the time to fix).

Total cost - $10 - no fringe meant lots less money.

Key Learnings: I loved each of these fabrics separately, but wasn't sure about how they would come together. Even as I built the crazy patch portion onto the base fabric, I didn't like them. HOWEVER, once I added embelleshments and the black/white structure fabric, I really loved the end result. They say that you can put almost any fabric together in crazy patch and I am becoming more of a believer.