The bag itself wasn't that hard to make, there are a few minor mistakes on it such as the seam holding down the pleats is viable beneath the band along the top, and the band itself is wrinkled in one spot, but it came out a lot better than I thought it was going to. Here are the photos at the end of the movie for a better look:
As you can see, after I finished recording I added some decorative buttons to the band of the purse. I remembered my sewing machine had the ability to sew on buttons and I thought I'd give it a try. It took over an HOUR to sew on all three buttons. I'm about 90% sure it was my fault, but NOTHING would go right as I tried to do this. I popped out the manual and thought I was following it to a T, but the threads ont he underside kept making huge loops and catching, and there is NO way to tell this until it either catches or by waiting till you are done sewing on the button. I must have blown a mile of thread trying to get it to work, and every time it did I have NO idea what I did to make it work. I just kept adjusting and re-threading again and again, and through some sort of ancient faerie magic, it would accidentally work.
Now, I know what you are thinking, "After the first one was such a pain in the ass, why didn't you just hand sew the rest? It takes like, 3 seconds." Well I thought of that. And the answer is: it was a challenge. haven't you ever started doing something that was supposed to be very simple, but it was giving you such a hard time you just HAD to finish it? There was no way I was letting that machine win. It was sewing me some buttons, if it was the last thing it ever did.
