
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!
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago at 11:42 am. Add a comment

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!
Posted 1 month ago at 5:34 pm. Add a comment
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)!
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 9:49 am. Add a comment
Here they are, a crop of four new tote bags! Meows, Bahhs, squared and squared again…
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago at 1:55 pm. Add a comment
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.




Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago at 8:37 am. Add a comment
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.
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:15 pm. Add a comment
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.
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago at 11:53 am. Add a comment
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…
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:07 pm. Add a comment
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.
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago at 9:22 pm. Add a comment
some of the monster totes are available at http://penelopebox.etsy.com !
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 12:08 pm. Add a comment