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Honeycomb Handbag

HONEYCOMB HANDBAG  I have been making my own handbags for years now, since I bought my first iPad I could not find a suitable handbag that had a place to fit it. I mostly use only one handbag as I hate transferring stuff from one bag to another just to be fashionable. This year I stepped up the look of my bag by getting faux leather from Emmaline Bags. I chose metallic purple which is my favourite colour with complementary colours turquoise and silver. I bought a metre of the purple and the turquoise and half a metre of the silver. I used a purple and turquoise cotton print for the lining I got at Spotlight. Hardware and zips also from Emmaline bags. First toile I started working on the design of this bag in January 2020 but go nowhere fast. I did a lot of procraftinating and making toiles and finally came up with a workable bag.  I made the bag up in drill to test how it functioned and too see if everything was accessible the way I wanted.  After two main toil