After the half marathon, my sports med surgeon / physical therapist told me to not do ANY exercise for a couple of weeks. Sigh. Do they not realize how much I depend on the evil beast I call "working out"? Clearly, they have never been overweight and/or lost 80 pounds & then managed to keep it off for 8 years. I'm getting old. I'm a former fat chick. I
have to exercise! But they said no. No means no. Switching gears. I've mentioned many, many times before here on the blog that I sew to keep sane. It's what I do. I love it. I decided it was time for a spring fling of some sort so I made myself this....
{the front}
{the inside (lottttts of pockets for all my junk)}
{the sassy little closure}
{not sure what to say about this one}
So, now you know what I've been up to since
I'm not allowed to run or workout for a bit. There are little moments here & there where I sneak away downstairs to sew. No computers, email, cell phone, conference calls, places to be, etc. Stress relief must come from somewhere. I might as well be constructive with my "down time". At least, that's what I keep telling myself! lol
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Congrats on the Half marathon!!!!
I love the purse! Did you use a pattern?
Cute bag :)
Good luck with the no exercise!
That is a great bag! Can I have one? LOL
I know how you feel about the exercise. I am having IT band issues and don't have an appointment with the sports med doc until Monday. I am not running tomorrow with my running group for the first time in 2 months! It is so depressing! I hope your leg heals up and you can get back to exercising again soon!
Love the purse...so cute! I used to sew long ago (nothing complicated), but really want to get back into it...I suppose that means I should buy some equipment..ha!
Been missing you! The purse is so cute! You are so talented. I totally understand about the excercise. Drag! When can you start back up? Are you thinking about selling some more purses? If you do I hope I'm fast enough to buy one! LOL!
I love the bag! Can you tell us what pattern you used? I'm a bag-maker myself. Thanks for your blog also. You are so inspiring.
Also, I altered the measurements to create a larger bag(I carry a lot of stuff & a small purse simply won't do). The original pattern makes a shorter bag that features the magnetic snap along the middle (skinny) band. Super cute, just not very functional for me. I also like longer handles, so I made sure to cut 26" instead of what the pattern stated.
I will warn you that the pattern is *awful*. Right down to at least 2 type-o's. Luckily, it's not that detailed of a bag to begin with so figuring out which path to take wasn't difficult.
Hope this helps! :)
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