I love the concept of trompe l'oeil. It's French for "trick the eye" or "deceive the eye" and although I am quite novice at this technique, I like to incorporate it into the bags I make. So I use a lot of printed, woven fabrics with maps or handwriting as the print, like the purse above. The purse is made of two squares, lined with interfacing, and sewn with a gusset on each of the bottom corners. I had enough of the material to use the same map-print for the lining and pieced the remaining fabric together to make a cross-body length strap. I primarily bought this fabric to make a laptop sleeve so it would look like I was carrying around some old maps when I was really carrying my laptop. Laptop sleeves are really easy, especially if you have remnants of fleece. You just measure the laptop, add some inches for seams and the closure and cut four pieces of the fabric and two of the fleece (or padding). I used a loop and button closure for this sleeve to keep it simple because I take this sleeve traveling and don't want to fuss with complicated ways of closing the sleeve. Since I wanted to reserve the map-print for the purse, I ended up using a piece of bias tape for the loop. The picture on the left is the sleeve closed and the picture on the right is the sleeve open.
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