Craft Tote Finished!!

A Place for Everything 2.0, Craft Tote. Pattern from byAnnie.

I wasn't expecting to finish it so early in the month, but after working on it for Friday Night With Friends, it was difficult to not continue sewing on Saturday. Then once I got close enough to finish before my Tuesday check-in, I just kept going... 

The finished pages. The back side is the light purple batik.

This was definitely a learning process, but no particular step was too difficult. The directions were excellent, but I'm not always good at following directions. LOL 

It took me around five days to finish this project, including the day of machine quilting the layers. I made a couple of minor mistakes (like a zipper pull being on the wrong side), but I am happy overall with how this project turned out. The most difficult part was the bias tape around the outer edges; it definitely would have been easier with the stiletto, which I hadn't bought (but I likely will order the next time I order something from the Fat Quarter Shop).

I do expect to make another of these totes, and probably other byAnnie bag patterns, but I really need to spend more time on a stained glass project we've been hauling around for 13 years, for the rest of the month. I'd love to finish it this summer.

I've already started moving in my current EPP project.

The interior of the bag with the pages removed.

Backside slip pocket of the Tote

This also completes my August One Monthly Goal.

I'm linking up with Design Wall Monday, Monday Making, and TGIFF.