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Madison is an elegant and practical bag with a zippered divider pocket that organizes the inside of the bag into 3 sections. And psst… the pattern includes two bag sizes !

{Madison} Elegant compartmentalized bag pattern

I have been wanting to create a compartmentalized handbag pattern for a while, it’s now done with Madison!

I ranked the pattern an intermediate level but the testers, and I share their opinion, feel that the pattern is also suitable for motivated/advanced beginners.

Patron sac compartimenté Madison — Madison compartmentalized bag pattern

Sac Grand Madison — Grand Madison bag size

An organized interior

As I said in the introduction, a zippered divider pocket creates three spaces inside the bag. 2 patch pockets complement the storage spaces.

Poche séparatrice zippée — Zippered divider pocket

Sac compartimenté — Compartmentalized bag

A triangle shaped bottom to play with contrasts

Contrasting colors and / or materials will showcase the design of the bag bottom that curves up in a triangle shape on the sides.

I love this aspect of the bag and it is easy to sew it neatly.

The triangular flap with magnetic snap echoes the shape of the bottom.

Fond de sac triangle — Triangle shaped bottom curves up to the sides

The pattern includes 2 bag sizes

Madison for those who never separate from the essential and Grand Madison for those who like to have everything on hand.

Madison dimensions: width 30 cm (12″), height 25 cm (10″), depth 12 cm (5″).
Grand Madison dimensions : width 35 cm (14″), height 30 cm (12″), depth 12 cm (5″).

Personally I have a weakness for Large bags and I sewed a Grand Madison just for me, with a print that I love: Ghastly Family by Alexander Henry.

Sac Grand Madison - Ghastly Family Alexander Henry — Grand Madison bag – Ghastly Family Alexander Henry and faux leather

Instructions & pattern

Madison is an intermediate or motivated beginner level pattern.

The detailed, illustrated instructions are 15 pages long.

17 pages are devoted to the full size pattern pieces. There are that many pages for the pattern pieces because I decided to separate the patterns for the two sizes: 8 pages are for Madison and 9 pages for Grand Madison.

In the PDF file you’ll find :

Detailled and illustrated sewing instructions
Full size pattern pieces
Needed supplies
Instructions to assemble the pattern
Cutting layout
A sewing lexicon

Your Madison

Here are some of the bags, sewn by you, using the Madison pattern.

Thanks

Sacôtin patterns are always tested by several seamstresses before their release to ensure clear instructions and a perfect pattern.

This is the All-Stars sewing team that tested Madison :

Merci to Cyrielle from Moonlight Thread, Lilou from Lilou pour L., Marie P. from El’En, O’Kryn from O’Kryn Prod and Sandrine from SB créations.

Thanks also to Céline for modeling for the pattern, to Madame Zaza for proofreading the French version of the instructions and to Maria aka Velosewer for proofreading the English version.