Gabrielle Shoulder Bag!

by poweredbyquilting · June 7, 2022

Starting to get back into the swing of making beautiful things again! I made this beautiful Gabrielle Shoulder Bag this past weekend on my Twitch channel. I had to make a few modifications, but it turned out pretty acceptable!

The exterior and interior are created with quilting cotton and I added cork for the handle and base of the bag. In addition to Shapeflex, the bag used Pellon 809, fusible fleece, and Decovil Heavy.

The interior has a slip pocket on one side. It's actually pretty roomy and will fit the Serendipity Wallet I made last week nicely.

Now for the pattern review:

The templates were completely in metric units, so it was rather annoying to have everything cut out via templates (even the rectangular pieces).
The trickiest part or rather the part that I need to improve on is the zipper. My zipper was the correct size but is a little wavy on the curvature of the opening.
The exterior fabric requirements are 1/4yard... this is not Fat Quarter friendly! I had to piece the gusset, but the base covers that up. The handle was also supposed to be from the same fabric, but I didn't have enough left so I used cork instead.
The curvature of the bottom was nice and it didn't pucker on the exterior or interior. However, adding the straps shifted and skewed the bag in one direction. If I were to make this again in the future, I would need to figure out how to adjust the edges and the straps so the finish is more square.

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