My top secret super sized project

I’ve mentioned on Facebook & Twitter that I was working on a top secret super sized project.  I wasn’t at liberty to share what I was working on because it was a surprise from for the teachers at the girls’ preschool.

Our preschool is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week this week and as their gift from the school I made each teacher a purse based off of an Amy Butler pattern for the Frenchy bag.  That’s 18 purses!

I started working on them back in February.  And by working on them, I was washing, drying, ironing, and cutting fabric.  Each purse has 14 pieces to it so just the cutting was time consuming.  I was so glad that I decided to start them early! The preschool was more than willing to get me the materials as soon as possible which was a tremendous help.

Spring is a busy time for me, personally and for the shop.  So it wasn’t until after Kate’s birthday party in the middle of March that I actually started sewing all the pieces together.  I went with an assembly line method and did the same pieces at the same time.

I was finished with all the purses on Saturday night, which was great because it wasn’t last minute.  All the teachers were given their purses this afternoon at a luncheon in their honor.  I’ve heard that they were very happy – which makes me feel good.  Every time I make something, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I worry that the recipient won’t like it.  Here are a few more pictures:

Just a disclaimer: the preschool provided all the supplies… I just provided the sewing. :).

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