Remember what I was saying about timing during the last post?

Same thing happened with the bag I made to put the bear in for storage. I thought I could cut it in one piece, finish up the long edge with a simple casing and then have two short side seams and be done in 2 hours.

Of course, that did not happen.

Instead, I ended up cutting one piece, but I had to cut it into two. Then I eventually decided to make a simple casing, but finish it up with grommets, which decided to be difficult. Then the silk was shredding like mad, so I decided to make french seams, which meant sewing all the seams twice. My simple little bag ended up taking about 4-6 hours. 

Then I decided that the bear needed a neck ruff, which i made out of ribbon, wide lace and pearl beads. I wanted it to take me an hour, ao I figured that it would actually take me 3. And it did. Hurrah for accurate estimates.  

I wanted to ship out the bear today, but all the post offices close to me are closed. I will have to wait until Monday. D: