Popcorn Purse completed

Today I added the lining and the tassel.    The lining is one piece of Star Wars fabric folded in half, sewn up the sides and with the top hemmed.  Sewing it in was a challenge...my hand sewing skills are a little rusty and it's pretty uneven.  

My first tassel did not turn out well.  The directions said to wrap the thread around a 2 inch piece of cardboard 70 times.   I tried to do it half black and half white but 70 rounds made a pretty thick tassel and didn't look quite right.  

I tried it in just black and wrapped the thread around 40 times.  This time it worked much better.  Here's the finished purse!

What I learned:

• Vintage patterns might not have detailed instructions but in this case, it was a pretty simple project and not necessary.
• The most difficult part was sewing in the lining.  I didn't want to attempt this on a sewing machine and while the zipper hid my poor sewing skills, the lining didn't.   Up until the point I put in the lining I was considering entering it into a fair but I'd need to do a much better job on the sewing part before I did that.
• Size 3 thread is easy to work with.  If my sewing skills were better I might make a few of these.  

Next Month:
On Monday I'll post the two choices for May on here and on Instagram.  We'll be moving ahead in time a few years.