Purple, purple oh where for art thou purple

I made my sil a bag. She wanted purple, fair enough it's her favourite colour. Turns out a good purple is hard to find right now. There's lots of lavender and mauve and some weird darker warmer...almost yellowy purples, plenty of burgundy but nice deep cool purple was pretty hard to hunt out. Not that hunting through fabric stores is a hardship (though sometimes a danger to the credit card). So note to fabric designers...make with the purple.

Anyway, this is the finished product. It's the Expandable Tote from U-Handbag. It's a bit fiddly but turns out really nicely. I think I might have to make one for myself, it's really roomy if you undo the ties and very cute tied up.