craftgrrl | It's a Bird, It's a Plane. . . (Reply)

I love moose. No, I take that back, I am obessed with moose. The people in my life gladly feed my addiction- not like I can't do it on my own, lol. But I was at JoAnn fabrics a few months a go getting fabric for my draping class and I discovered moose fabric. Not fabric with the occational moose, but I'm talking about nothing BUT moose. It was hella expensive for me to buy ($9/yd is tough on a college budget!), so I bought 3/4 yard and its been sitting in my fabric tote for all this time. But tonight I got the urge to sew.

I've never liked purses, but now I find I need something to carry my crap. My mom got me a ceramic moose button and I went from there. I would like to point out I have NEVER made a purse before, so don't mind me as I ramble on with delight. :-)

This is a close up of the fabric. There was no WAY in hell I was going to pass this up. ;-)

This is the purse in full, its not very big- 5" by 5.5" with a 23" shoulder strap.

This is a shoddy close up of the bull moose button. I used my seam ripper to open a hole in the clasp and hand-sewed around the edge to finish it.

I added a pocket in the inside. The lining of the pocket, purse, and underside of the strap is the checkered print. I had just enough left over for this project.