Gabrielle Shoulder Bag!

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.

Bag Details:

• Pattern: Gabrielle Shoulder Bag by Miss Freckles Design
• Fabric: Rifle Paper Fabric exterior and Alison Glass interior
• Thread: Aurifil forty3wt
• Interfacing: Pellon SF101, 809, TP971F, and Decovil Heavy

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