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There is a wealth of information as well as lots of pictures in Joan's blog. Her instructions and demonstration pictures are perfectly clear. Nothing is assumed. Which I appreciate even more now that I've made another tote bag from a pattern that I almost threw into the garbage. Just because you can sew a unique bag doesn't mean you can put together a successful pattern for it. I felt ripped off after spending the money on the pattern. I even told my quilt shop owner about it too. She said she had talked to the designer who told her the pattern wasn't for beginners. Darn right. It wasn't all that difficult to sew, but if you weren't experienced enough to understand what the next step should be and how to do it, you would be sunk. The pattern instructions wouldn't help.
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16 years ago