The result - Unbiased from knitty.

The pattern, as it is, produces a very very shallow bag. This was impossible for me because I tend to carry half my life around in my bag. There is a pattern for a deeper bag on the designer's website, but I only discovered this after I'd finished the bag, so what I ended up doing was to stitch the middle of the bag up about 2" on both sides. Because the sari silk makes such a scrappy fabric this isn't visible at all and voila! A deeper and much more usable bag! :)