I realized the other day that it’s been awhile since I posted anything to my blog.  There’s a very good reason for that: I’ve been working on many gifts for family, some of whom read this blog, so I had that awkward “I want to post this but can’t until it’s been gifted to them and oops I forgot to take pictures along the way” moment a number of times in the past couple of months.

And then National Sewing Month happened…and I suddenly felt a desire to take a break from the sewing.  I bought TONS of new fabric for a variety of projects (mainly for Christmas and for my Halloween costume), which brings me back to…how do I blog about the projects that I do when they’re gifts for family?  But I miss blogging about my projects, so some family may just get sneak previews of their gifts.

This month, I started off with making myself a new bag for my birthday.  Overall, it ended up larger than the first bag I made, in both size and in strap length.  Rather than hanging at my torso, this hangs more like a book bag, which I’m finding I like a lot.  I’ll post a tutorial about how I made this (and the previous bag) as soon as I finish working on another bag (I didn’t take photos of the process for either of the first two!).