Sewing a purse

My flatmate wanted a purse that was slim enough to fit in her back pocket. But also had dividers for coins / notes / cards.

It was her birthday. I headed into town.

There are so many basic purses in the shops. €4, €5, €7, €8 and onwards and upwards for a zip attached to a pretty-patterned fabric; no dividers!

I popped in to the trimmings shop and bought a 4" zip for €1.50 and with some black satin fabric I had at home, proceeded to piece together the purse.

Here's the design:

• 4x rectangles of fabric, same size + zip
  
• turn down the long edge one of the rectangles and sew an edge - do this with two of the rectangles
• sew the zip onto a long edge of the other two rectangles
• place all four pieces of fabric on top of each other (placing the edged pieces and the zip on the same side) and sew the three edges
• voilá