Dollie Mini Cross Body Bag in Painted Fabric & Cork-Look Fabric

Hello Dollie!!! This is the Mini Dollie Cross Body Bag (from Swoon) and I again used a small piece of painted fabric that I created using textured rubbing plates. I didn't think I would have enough of the painted fabric to make anything large and well this bag is not very large, which is perfect for the last of my painted fabric. I again paired the painted fabric with cotton fabric that looks like cork. 

This is a great bag for a minimalist or a child or teenager. It may be small in size, but it's big in style!

Dollie measures 6" wide x 6" tall x 2.75" deep. Perfect for holding a phone and keys and a few other small items.

A sweet bag with a gusset and a flap.

The back of the bag has a slip pocket, which is the painted fabric here.

The bag closes with the magnetic snap on the flap.

I made my side connectors longer than the pattern instructions and added more rivets.

Here is the back slip pocket.

Inside the bag I added a slip pocket, which wasn't part of the bag instructions.

Better view of the inside slip pocket.

You can make this bag yourself with the free Swoon pdf, or if you want to buy this Dollie that I already made, please go to my PayHip Shop. Click on the PayHip logo on the right side bar. Thanks!

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Dollie Cross Body Bag, Enlarged

I recently made the Dollie Mini Cross Body Bag by Swoon Patterns (a free pattern). Well I wondered if I enlarged the pattern how it would work. So I enlarged it and added some slip pockets inside and side gusset pockets too. It came out nice, although the gusset pockets could have been larger at the top (with a snap or elastic perhaps). What do you think?

I used a red, white and blue variegated thread and decorative stitch to topstitch the flap and tab.

Slip pocket in the back of the bag.

Since I enlarged this bag, I decided to add a slip pocket inside against the front of the bag.

I stitched a decorative stitch down the center of the strap, added a slip gusset pocket on both sides too.

To show you the scale difference, here is Mini Dollie and Bigger Dollie together.

And another view of the 2 side-by-side.

Both of these have sold.

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Dollie Mini Cross Body Bag

The Dollie Mini Cross Body Bag is a free pattern by Swoon Patterns. I loved the shape and style of this little bag when I saw it, so I wanted to make one. You can make the accents in faux leather if you want. I thought I would give it a go in black faux leather for the accents. But when I sewed the tab piece onto the flap, the faux leather puckered and well needless to say, I ripped it out and used cotton fabric instead. I gave away the pieces of faux leather I had. No more faux leather for me! I much prefer sewing with cotton fabrics. I like that I can press the fabric too. I still used a black fabric for the accents and I love how this sweet little bag turned out.

Since this is a small bag, it can be made with just a little fabric and it sews together rather quickly too. This style and size bag would be perfect for a teen or a younger girl (you would need to shorten the strap for a young girl) too. It's great for when you don't want to carry a lot and want your hands free too. Thank you Swoon for this sweet pattern.

I used a decorative stitch down the middle of the strap and even got brave using a contrasting pink thread. I sewed the strap into the side top gusset instead of sewing strap tabs with rings on the sides.

This is a very small bag. Just large enough to hold a few essentials like a small wallet, phone & keys.

The back has a slip pocket.

Back slip pocket.

This bag has sold.

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