I recently ventured into the wonderful world of bag-making, a craft that I need to perfect. I wanted to make a bag for my sister to present to her when we visited her in Portland. I wanted to primarily use a fabric she had seen in Austin and had really liked. A combination of sewing without my partners, PMB and EH (who have far more bag experience than I and whom I would have had to explain my design to and therefore potentially identified the flaws in it), and my over enthusiasm for this fabric, led to some serious obstacles. I think that the bag turned out alright, esp after I found some cheap earrings that I turned into buckles on the bag:
I like the Winnie the Pooh lining of the bag, and the fabric generally. The style is a bit awkward -- is it a purse? Too big. Is it a gym bag? Too small. And I have since found far better buckles here in Portland at the best fabric store I have ever been to:
Bolt.
2 comments:
I'm wondering if there are regular bag measurements that people use in order to achieve the right consistency--for example, 12" x 24" or 12" x 14". Maybe we should bring some of the bags whose size we we like and set about measuring them to get a sense of this.
good thinking, eh.
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