Amendment

I made this purse a few weeks ago and didn't add the finishing touch right away.

Making the flower embellishment required using a hot glue gun, and I couldn't remember where I had seen mine when we moved into this house. 

Besides, I'm pretty sure that we lived in California when I bought the two that I have.

That was before email.

It's safe to say that if I were to even locate my glue guns, they'd need to be replaced.

This called for a trip to the craft store.

(Twist my arm!)

In the meantime, I had the opportunity to join a friend for the Houston Quilt Show. 

It was spectacular, and I so enjoyed Lou Ann's sweet company.

We were at the show for most of the day, and the ready-made, impulsively-purchased handles of the purse ended up really hurting my shoulder.

I decided to go ahead and replace the handles by making fabric straps, instead (which is sort of what the intelligent designer of the pattern suggested in the first place).

*sigh*

I learn the hard way.

As seems to be my M.O. these days, a major boo-boo was quite obvious after I finished the entire project. Just scroll back up to that photo at the top of this post, and see if you can figure out my blunder.

A nice person on Facebook said that she actually prefers the flaw rather than the "right" way.

It just doesn't bother me enough to redo it.

Seam ripping bothers me.