A new crop of fresh white architectural bags, Pittsburgh houses! Screenprinted onto brushed white canvas, with a screenprinted Pittsburgh on the other side. There’s about five of the bags, all medium-small size, lunch-picnic size. The ink is auburn, sometimes with a hint of purple. All up on Etsy!
I began these during Pittsburgh snowstorms, and am finally around to putting them up for sale on Etsy. I loved cutting out white snowflake mandalas, and one of the turqouise bags has a mandala I painted back in Budapest when taken with circle designs. They’re for sale here!
Two more tote bags, this time monstrous! Both are heart monsters, one is purple striped, the other blue velvet. Psycho eyes? Singing teeth? Who knows what is going on, I chalk it up more to my late night sewing skills than gurgles of a subsconscious that needs investigation. But however they came into being, here they are (oh and on Etsy too)!
Here they are, a crop of four new tote bags! Meows, Bahhs, squared and squared again…
All the scraps from recent elephant-monster-dress projects have circled into the foliage of these trees. Thanks to the ladies at St. Bernards Sewing Circle for their upholstery donations — after entering first into life as stuffed softies, now it’s tote bags. Three windy trees on each, with circles of scrap fabrics for leaves. Applique on a sturdy pale green canvas, there you have a Three Tree Tote Bag.
I’m making three tote-purses featuring girl dorks doing dance moves. Here is the first complete one — a black tote, with a Number 2 pocket sewn on one side, the other side with a blonde haired, pink sparkly shirted girl in her big purple glasses heating up the floor.
She/it’s available for sale over at Etsy, here.
I was going through old photos and realized I’d never posted these bags up — they sold at Oakmont at Spring, and one I mailed to Poland, Babimost, and another I have kept as my ‘beautiful scraps’ bag, but here they are! I want to make some more Big Red Hand bags, maybe with some Henna patterns sewn onto them.
Or any other face of my choosing! I am going to make some bags out of LP casings. There’s one over at Web Goddess that is more a hardware project than a sewing one, but I guess in the battle of Sewing Machine Vs. Cardboard, Cardboard will always win. I know that now. With a pile of snapped needles and a few purple fingertips to testify. Maybe I’ll be able to make some by Sunday’s craft fair! Let the sewing go on, by Sunday I will be a cripple…
Mairead brought me a handful of gorgeous silk fabrics from Roberta out in the wilds of County Antrim. So beautiful, a little bit stiff like upholstery fabric, and with sheens that change in every light. I cut them up and assembled them into a tote bag — just big enough for a laptop plus a few books and apples. It is my new favorite! We’ll see how long it survives the Pittsburgh Public Transit System.
some of the monster totes are available at http://penelopebox.etsy.com !
