Spring is on it's way. I love this time of year - saying hello to all of the flowers that I've missed over the cold months on sunny walks with some charming French tunes on my ipod. Here's a selection of those tunes for you whilst you have a read. If you like them let me know. Two lazy jazz numbers by Madeleine Peyroux here and another here, and a fun number by Pink Martini.
I've finished the May 08 bag for Sewing Word Magazine (you see can some of the planning for this bag here - thanks for your votes). The magazine theme for May is 'blue in all shades'. So in keeping with the theme I designed this crescent shaped Hand/shoulder bag with darts and a tab closure. I decided to make two of these bags one in velvet and the other in a cotton drill, but I royally messed up the one in cotton drill. Sometimes designing a tute for a easy-ish bag is fraught with much hardship and many choice swearwords. After flipping my lid from messing up the first bag I was amazed at how easy it was to write the tutorial and make another bag??!!
May 08 magazine cover.
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So I made this bag in the blue velvet and also in Oilcloth (sorry about posting loads of pics; it's for when I sell the bag at a later stage):
Mmmm fresh looking Chrysanthemums. I have used this smart bamboo handle - the handle is wide and tall enough to slip over your shoulder, and I also used these silver rings 1".
Close-up of darts. Darts are a good way to add a volume to your bags and they are faster than making gussets.
Close up of the shiny stuff.
Lining is duck egg blue cotton.
I'll post pics of the Baby blue velvet version tomorrow (it's almost finished).
