Tackled. Purse Frames....

They've been on my list forever, kind of haunting me in a way....purse frames. Kind of intimidating really. I bought the frames months ago. Then last week, I looked at my gobs of fall fabric & thought, "Buck Up Allisa." So I carved out two hours (thanks to the nanny), got a latte, turned on some old Dolly tunes, and voila! I did try a pattern I purchased from Etsy, which I am not recommending...not just because I can't stand patterns in general but this one in particular took me down a dead-end road. I did enlist the help of the ever-reliable Uhandbag blog and managed to make sense of it all. They are still a work in progress, but here are my first little fledglings...