The beads came last week, so I finished the purse for my daughter. I hope she likes it. I think it came out good - so good, in fact, that...

I'm almost done with this - except I ran out of black beads lastweek. I'm waiting for the ones my daughter sent to me on Thursday i...

My husband decided to take a different kind of picture for this this week. It really looks like it's coming together. The edging on t...

Well, I've been working on the edge of the purse and haven't been able to do much this week, but at least some. The way things are ...

The strap's grown to 35 inches and I'm almost done with the first row of edging on the sides in this picture. Since then, I've ...

I got almost the whole top part of the flap edged and the strap's grown to 34 inches. It's getting there! Looks like it's one ...

This week, I started a new part of the purse - I'm beading the edges. Talk about tedious! I have two rounds of it to go, and in the p...

The strap is now officially 32 inches ... only 11 inches to go. I started doing the beadwork this week around the edge of the bag, but that...

I didn't get much done on this this week - just managed to get the strap another inch and a half longer. I still like how it is coming...

It's looking like a real purse now. I got the second side sewn up. Didn't make any progress on the strap, though. Should be able to...

All the edges are now neatly trimmed up and the strap is 28.5 inches long. After this picture, I sewed up one side of the bag and was surpr...

This week, I managed to get to the point of turning the purse layers right side out. Since taking these pictures, I sewed up the open side...

The strap is now 25.5 inches long. I've not been able to stitch as much as I usually do this month due to some complications in my lif...

This week I started layering the batting and backing for the purse. I have about a third of the purse's lining stitched on. It's ...

The strap is up to 23.5 inches and after this picture was taken, I cut the purse into its shape and added the batting. Next is to sew it t...

Well, I'm officially halfway done on the strap now and I did manage to get the beads and finish the feather stitches on the ribbons (th...

I managed to get some done on both parts this week. The strap is now nineteen inches long and I have less than half a length of feather st...

The strap is up to sixteen and a half inches in these pictures. It's getting there bit by bit. I'm on the last row of beading on ...

The beaded strap is now fifteen inches long, meaning I'm over a third of the way done. On Saturday, after this picture was taken, I fin...

Just plugging along on this. I'm almost done with the third line of beading on the body of the purse and got another couple of inches d...