Limp Pile of Pink Linen

I saw an ad for a Bento Bag that seemed to cost a heck of a lot more than it should. I looked up how to sew a bento bag and it is stupid simple, but still has plenty of room for getting fiddly bits wrong. You need to hem certain sides of the bag before assembly and if you don't do it right, you will have issues at a the very visible intersections at the front and back centers.

I've been sewing things for long enough that I did not have any problems. However, I chose to use a lovely, soft linen that I have far too many yards of. Sigh. I now have a bento bag that is a shapeless pile of pink linen.

I wanted to test the pattern and figure out if it would make a thing that I could use. The pattern works. My fabric choice does not. I have canvas that I could use to make a bento bag that would probably work quite well. Or I could create a lined version with not much effort. But not today.