Today my lovelies I'm continuing to bombard you with The Sling bag, but this time with a guest post from one of my testers. Liz is going to talk you through the edits she made to make this pattern her own!

Over to you Liz!

As some of you know, I am happy to be one of Samantha's pattern testers. Normally when I test a pattern for a designer ...I sew it as she writes it ...after all, that is what I am suppose be testing ( if it makes sense and fits together.)

But this time was a bit different ....Samantha allowed us to make any changes to the pattern ( keep it basically the same) .....play with it....and play with it we did.....


I first wanted to make it in pleather but one of the other tester beat me to it...I won't mention any names Maria !

So I figured I would do the next crazy thing...and sew it in vinyl ! Don't ask me what I was thinking of making it in vinyl...at the time it sounded like a good idea!!
Actually I think it turned out pretty good....if you are also crazy enough to sew it in vinyl...here are a few tips ( & changes ) I will share with you.

I added almost 2" to the length of the pattern since I wanted to make a accent flap and I was afraid if I didn't lengthen it it would stick out like a board..

For the pattern, I used masking tape to tape my vinyl to the batting and then I basted it along the outer edges....( 1/8" seam allowance) to hold it in place....no pins allowed !

Use Wonder clips to hold the outer & inner together and top stitch it closed...I forgot to take a picture here so pretend that I haven't topstitched it yet.
For the strap I also cheated and used webbing.....