Josipa Bag

A friend of mine is hosting a Valentine's Day themed auction with dresses, hair pretties, and jewelry and she invited me to join.  I offered to make a bag and used that as an excuse to buy a pattern I've been wanting to try for a long time.  The pattern is Josipa by Gretelies.
I decided I needed to do a trial run before I made the bag I want to offer for auction.
Here is what I made.

This was all the fabric that was left over from my Anna Maria Horner Socialite Dress I made a couple years ago.

There were two blueish smears on the fabric that I cut around to make the dress, so my purse has the smears on it, but I tried my best to make sure they were on the back and toward the bottom.

I mainly used the photos in the pattern to guide me, since it is completely in German.  I also copied and pasted some of the instructions into Google Translate to double check.  I did my own thing when it came the the straps and I used an invisible magnetic snap from Tantalizing Stitches instead of velcro.

I am so glad I went ahead and bought 15 sets of the magnetic closures because I never want to go back to the ones with prongs on the back again!

I tried a non-zip pocket and it's kinda not the best looking thing because I was winging it and didn't do it right, but I like the look and the idea of it.  I hardly ever zip my interior zip pockets anyway.

This bag is definitely Spring colors, but I don't know if I'll be able to wait until then to carry it.  This is one of my all time favorite prints by Amy Butler and I'm really glad to have a bag made from it.

I pat myself on the back for a muslin well done.

See?  Invisible snap.  I love it.

You must try them if you are going to make a bag.  Michelle Patterns uses these sometimes in her patterns, which I also love, and she PERSONALLY recommended these to me (eek!  I felt like I was messaging with a celebrity through her Etsy shop page!) and directed me to Tantalizing Stitches.

Next up: The REAL bag that will be auctioned on the 20th.  Gotta get going on that!