My first frame purse

If you remember my fabric pieces from my post on Tuesday and have been wondering what they'd turn into, you're about to find out!

Here's the almost-finished project:

And the other side:

I used Jess's laminated Outside Oslo fabrics, but since all I have of that is scraps, there wasn't enough to do the whole pouch in the same design, so that's why there are two different fabrics. :)

This is how it looked before I glued it into the frame:

I was hesitant about glueing it, and procrastinated as long as I could, afraid I would mess it up. I also thought it seemed like it would be kind of hard to do, although all the tutorials I saw said it was easy. Well, I didn't find it to be as easy as they said. And I would say the glue messed me up! The first side went sort of okay, but when I went to do the second side, the glue seemed awfully anxious to come out of the tube, and with it being clear, I had a hard time seeing how much I had inside the frame. Maybe I shouldn't have started working on it after 10 o'clock at night? So I had too much glue in it, and I ended up with glue in places I didn't want the glue to be! Also, although the tutorials said the glue would be easy to pick off the frame after it dried, it wasn't. I had quite a time with it, and ended up using a solvent to get it off. It was a learning experience, all around.

Despite all that, I guess it turned out okay.

Yes, it's very little. I have a larger frame, too, but I chose to do the small one first, so if I blew it, I wouldn't be wasting so much fabric. In hindsight, I think it might've been wiser to do the larger one first, because there would've been more working room, making it easier to handle. Someday I'll get around to making a bigger purse, but not right away. I've had enough glue-pickin' for a while.

There are lots of tutorials for making framed purses, and they're all basically the same. I ended up using the ones I found here, because they come in PDF format, so I could load them onto my iPad.

Now I think I'll go back to doll clothes for awhile... or maybe a bigger bag or something.....