a present for a 3 year old friend

After much frustration over my sewing machine yesterday, I did eventually finish this...

a little shoulder bag for a very special friend. I popped her name under the flap.

The body of the bag is made out of denim that I had in my stash and the lining is Going Dotty Raspberry from Kokka and the fabric on the flap is Babushka Dolls and Cat again from Kokka.  The pattern was made up as I went.

Happy stitching.

special delivery

I had request from my son for a delivery bag.  J does a paper round and needed a new bag.  After much deliberation between the kokka robots and the echino bicycle fabric he went with the bicycles.  I made up the pattern as I went along using an old esprit bag that I had.

To give the bag a base I folded some of the fabric to the outside forming a triangle shape and stitched - a sort of deconstructed look.  I also let some of the selvedge show, but was a bit bummed when the word bicycles got covered by the turned up fabric.

And the verdict from the delivery bag critic

Yup it's cool Mum.