"V" for Victory!

Finally, today I finished all of the knitting on the Brea Bag! I am getting to the point where I am exhausted with it and just want it to be a purse already, dang it! I finished the gusset earlier - that piece took the longest by far - not because it was difficult - it was just moss stitch - but because it was so repetitive and ended up being over 2 feet long all measured out! Yikes! I then tackled the awful task of the reverse-single crochet along the top which I have ripped out and done over and over and over - never to my liking. Finally instead of using the recommended 2 strands of yarn held together, I used one and ended up being semi-satisfied with it - enough to LET IT GO anyway! All that I have left to do is (1) sew pieces together, (2) wait for handle to come in the mail* and attach (3) find a button and fabric for the lining (4) attach said lining and button

*Sidenote on the handle - I am not usually one to follow a pattern exactly but this one just seemed right. The pattern gave the website for the handle they used and I ended up ordering the same one. I couldn't find anything I liked around here or in fabric/craft stores so I went for this one - I neat braided leather. I can't wait for it to come in!

Oh - another side note on fabric. I probably would have picked out fabric by now but WALMART STOPPED SELLING FABRIC! I knew a lot of them were stopping a year or so ago and I figured ours was safe because it was still there. Low-and-behold I came back from the beach last week and they were WIPED OUT. I am majorly miffed about this - now I have to drive about 30 minutes to find fabric. Not saying I am a hardcore sewer but some of my projects need fabric. Grr!

Enough ranting - it's dinner time and I am hungry, so here's a sneak-peak at the finished pieces of the Brea.