My sweet niece ask me to make her a gymnastics bag a few months back last December. After loosing the zipper I needed, crying (just a little) because I don't use patterns and forgetting to tell the lady that did the embroidery what shade of green to use for her name on the bag ; what matters the most is she loves it!
I will say I hate rounded corners, rounded ends, rounded anything. I really should stick with right angles, they like me, I like them, we all get along.
My niece is a spunky, adorable 10 year old, who is NOT afraid of COLOR and BOLD patterns. We meet at our local fabric store and she picked out the two fabrics for this bag. I really do like how it turned out! BUT I will never make another one, unless someones is willing to pay me $500 for it, then I would consider making another one........but only then. My anti-pattern mind set gets me in trouble sometimes. ;-)
This is what I made her last year for her birthday:
