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Amy Bulter Weekender

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The infamous Amy Butler Weekender Bag! Tick and Check! I’m super happy with how it turned out! There is heaps of help out there on the net. I found Milly’s version particularly helpful. I followed her idea to use a vinyl on the bottom to make it waterproof and a little more hard wearing. I added extra elastic pockets to the inside and some velcro patches to the external big pockets to help them stay closed. I'd read somewhere that you can fit a heap of towels into the weekender so I thought I'd test it. I had a magazine to put in the pocket but got out voted by the boy. He thought a dinosaur book would look much better in there! So course he then clamied that it was 'his' bag! I don't think so buddy! There are a few wrinkles in the piping but not bad for a first effort! It is perfect in some places and not so in others. I did do a little unpicking and resewing to make it look tighter and I could maybe have done a little more but I was ...