Bag tutorials for all!

Nothing like a little dose of free internet purse tutorials to spice up your Tuesday! Thanks to the sweet link love from how about orange - here are 12 great bags to chose from:

So many fantastic options! (Click on the image above to get individual pattern links). If only I had more time (and a better fabric selection)!! I spent a while trying to decide on which one I'd like to tackle first (and by tackle I mean ask mom to help me make) and my first reaction was to do this one:


I love that honey comb and the single pleats! It's a great size bag for toting around just enough crap too (haha - too bad I'm serious). But I quickly realized that I probably wouldn't be able to find such amazing fabric and a leather strap so I converted my tutorial attention to this one:


You still get the visual interest of a few pleats and that great bag size! I just need to find some killer fabric to put this pattern to work, which hopefully will surface with a quick trip to ikea at the end of the month (oh yeah lindsay and fraser - can we stop by ikea?)! I'd actually really like to use that grey leaf print fabric my mom's purse is made from so hopefully ikea still has a yard or two kicking around! Sweet! We'll have (sort of) matching bags mom! We're that cool! Leslie will be so jealous...