My first (well, kinda) bag

Not *technically* the first bag I've made, but the first one I'm not embarassed to take out in public.

Here is the outside.

And here is the inside.

I have an obsession with Alexander Henry fabrics, which they (oddly enough) sell at Joann's. The skull fabric is an AH creation, and a remnant bin score. The outer dots fabric came from Zoe's Trunk in Chandler, AZ.

I tried to use a "For Dummies" pattern, but apparently I'm even stoopider than a dummy (moron? imbecile?). One would assume that the purchasers of "For Dummies" patterns are sewing newbies, and therefore pattern newbies, so they would be easier to follow. One would be WRONG. So the basic shape of the bag came from the pattern, while the construction came from the AWESOME "Jordy Bag" tutorial on the craftster.org forums.