Well, I finished the laptop bag, and I stayed up way too late for nothing, 
. But, but, butter, it looks good.
Well, anyone want a bag for a laptop that measures about 9+1/2 inches x 14+1/2 inches? Heh. (Might be better at 9 in x 14 in, 
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My laptop would not fit into it, otherwise I’d say hell yeah. I love the chicken pattern.
It looks really good. That the first laptop bag ya made?
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Too bad it’s too small.
I have definitely been in your shoes with many projects.
But the bag itself looks great and you got some practice in. You can still use it for something else or give it as a gift.
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Yep! Kind of liking that it came out decent. I drafted it during one of my major dizzy spells. So granted a few mistakes, but I was able to fix them…(Not including the smallness of the bag. That didn’t occur to me til I was able to start piecing it together that I started worrying it was a bit on the small side, 
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However, it does give me a task to aim for. Sewing the zipper along the side rather than only on the top. . Will have to hunt down a few vids to see how that works.
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This looks awesome! Would’ve never guessed it was your first bag!
It looks like a great size for a sketchbook. 
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It looks great! Not ideal, but could you take out the bottom seams and add in some panels? You could leave the zipper in and go in through the side seam to bag it out.
The sewing looks great! Maybe someone that has a tablet or a Surface-type device could use it?
Looking over my sewing machine, even if I can’t open the seams (well enough, heh) to do so. What I think I can pull off, cut the bottom of the bag by about 2 inches, and create a bottom piece three inches (4 probably to be safe, heh). Then move my sewing machine so the… …Sleeve sewing doohickey … would be the only part laying off the table, and I could sew the bottom piece on like it was a sleeve. Meh, I think it’d be best if I re-drafted the design and tried again anyway (Already have a possible commission, heh). Plus, I could find a better fabric, heh. So I can give this one away. 
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Oh absolutely. Anything smaller, it’d even hold small books, journals, notebooks, etc, and the pocket can hold stuff, too.
Huh! After zipping it up and looking it over thinking about carrying books, it just occurred to me that it would be nice to add at least one of those open pockets on the back (Like what I did for the pocket on the tablet bag). I could slide a notebook in there, since I’m not going to do a shoulder strap, the notebook will not have any chance of falling out, . I’m definitely going to remake it.
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it looks fantastic. Maybe you can find anither use for it?
Already putting it to the test. I put my keyboard, tablet, notebook, and my laptop’s cord into it. Now I just need to find a couple of pens to put in it… , Ooh, that would be something to add to the next bag, too, a few pen storage pockets.
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Looks great! Maybe it could be a tablet bag.
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I think as you use any bag, you start thinking of what else would be handy. Pockets are always handy. I would definitely do a zipper all around the sides and top…or even two zippers meeting in the middle. It will make taking out the laptop way easier.
You can find a use for your chicken bag…it turned out pretty cute!
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Funny you mention that, heh. I was watching the video of that one laptop bag I really want to make and noticed that they put a zipper like that on it, which, of course, made me really want to do that.
Ever since then, though, I have been trying to figure out how I could make a laptop bag similar to that, but with the batting I have. So far, the only method I can think of doing it would be to completely enclose the batting with the inside front pocket and the laptop pocket, then sew a crisscross over both that and the back of the bag. I would definitely have to add that back pocket for a notebook, because I just don’t like the crisscross sewing pattern for a laptop bag. For this one, I had sewn a straight stitch from the outside of the handles down to the bottom of the bag.
You can see the sewed parts here. The sewed part helps to keep the batting from bunching up. I would much prefer the foam that was in the video, but I can’t find thin foam here.
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