Thursday's WIP (aka the Gas Bag) is finished.

Every now and again (like; I mean rarely) a project is a joy from start to finish.  From the time you dream up the design (in this case on the phone to the gas & electricity people - hence the name 'Gas Bag') to the moment you snip off the threads from the last seam.  You know what that means though folks - the next 3 bags or so are going to be complete 'mares' to make...heh!

So here is the Gas Bag in all her pleated, piped, darted, and zippered-ness...

I was too excited to do a decent job of ironing it; ironing, schmironing.  I think it would be fair to say these round buckle handles do look the business.

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Side view.

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Handles are back stitched on with tapestry thread.

...and this is where the zipper is hiding. Yep, it's a concealed top edge bag zipper and I hope to have the tutorial for it written and posted on the blog by this Thurs/Fri.  Hurrah!

**UPDATE** Here is the Zipper Tutorial.