Love your bag ! It IS weird to use a paper or tissue pattern now, after so much rotary cutting.
I sewed a lot of my clothes in high school, it was nothing to sit down and make a skirt in a few hours to wear the very next day - or make an outfit over the weekend to wear on Monday ! Remember the PANT SUITS ?? We couldn't wear jeans to high school then (1970's) - it had to be a matching pant suit. And our dresses could be NO shorter than our fingertips as we stood for "inspections" by the asst. principal or counselor. Crazy :roll: :roll: