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 !
