Well I have done my bag. I'm afraid I didn't take progress pictures. I got quite demoralised and nearly didn't continue with it at all. I had bought a short leather skirt in a charity shop and I thought it would make what I have wanted for some time - a smallish bag to carry an umbrella, spare pair of shoes etc. that would fold up and go inside another bag if necessary.
When I unpicked it I was horrified - it isn't leather at all, it's PVC. I would have bet anything that I couldn't be fooled by it, but I was. I lost interest for a while, but I needed the bag so, until I can get another one done, here it is. I lined it with furnishing fabric and it has a magnetic catch to keep it closed. It would have looked better if I had interlined it with something quite stiff but then it wouldn't fold up so easily.
I forgot to say, I used the waistband of the skirt for the strap. A bit tricky because it was slightly curved. I did order some D rings for fastening it, but they took so long to come that I just stitched it on.
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