I made this Heather Bailey Bag called the Marlo Bloom Bag, a while ago. My husband bought me the pattern and fabrics for my birthday, and I think he did a great job picking them out. The exterior is a soft linen with just the right amount of texture to it, and the interior and flower is regular quilting weight cotton. I also used canvas as interfacing.
In all, the instructions are well written and easy to understand. Sewing this up wasn't that hard, exept for the handles. Or it wasn't difficult, just very time consuming. I didn't have the double sided fusible interfacing for the handles, which means you have to glue the fabric to the wrong side of all four handle pieces...and hold the small pieces in place while the glue dries. It took some time. I would strongly recommend using the double sided fusible.
I'm very pleased with the result and think the fabric flower makes the design really lovely. I miss a small pocket on the inside (A zipper pocket would be great, since the bag is quite wide and open.) and would probably add that if I make this again.
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