Nearing...

The moment of truth - glueing the purse frame onto the

pocket tab, note the masking off of the surrounding area.

The glue is quite strong and whilst it peels off metal,

it does what it is supposed to and sticks very well to fabric.

The magnets have been sewn on with a buttonhole

stitch that just catches the main fabric, hopefully the

stitches won't show too much on the right side.

The sew on magnets, that will be used to support the

weight of the purse clasp, so that it can lay flat against

the body of the garment.

The pocket tab turned to the right side - looking good!

Here the woven hair canvas has been sewn with the main

fabric and lining to create the purse tab.

The final piece was made up in the same way as the toile, except that

the linen fabric has a much softer handle than the calico used for the

toile, so I used the same medium weight iron on interfacing that I used

for the pocket fronts, to stiffen the back straps.

I also used a sew in woven hair canvas - not bought specifically, but a

remnant left over from my youthful home dressmaking days,

I thought it would be ideal to stiffen the purse pocket tab, to give more

support to the shape, yet not be too stiff.

I spent quite a while positioning the paper pattern pieces onto the

fabric, as the printed pattern is quite large there were gaps where

little occurred, but I also wanted to try and retain a sizeable piece

of fabric for a sample.