Ikea bag

A quickie update here with more sewing- bag with zipper made with IKEA fabric. Pattern from Sew Everything Workshop. (a great book with a variety of patterns, I've also made the yoga/ lounge pants from it.)

More update soon...its been hard to keep up with various emails/trades/swaps... please forgive me, I haven't forgotten about you! I've been busy with various things.

I went the Parsons Illustration Alumni reunion at the Society of Illustrators last week. So happy to see old classmates and familar faces....my class was always a small, tight knit and friendly group. I also had to go meet with a client and my accountant... maybe dealing with my taxes had completely wiped me out.

I make bag, bag makes me happy

My new favorite bag! More projects from Amy Butler's In stitches....I was finally confident to tackle this bag and it wasn't that hard. Plus, this fabric is the most expensive fabric I've worked with yet...can't mess it up! Although I haven't bought the very expensive yet very cute Japanese fabric I've been oogling over just yet. This fabric is from The City Quilters, very easy for me to get to. Or maybe too easy....I've already got the farbic hording syndrome....

Bag Lady

I am so happy about my new bag! It was made by yours truly, taking a class at Make Workshop. The pattern is an original from Nikki Smith, an editor at Cutting Edge Magazine-who taught the class. I picked up alot of new tips, and even sewed on machines that went a gzillion times faster than my hello kitty machine. The interior is lined and closed with a magnetic snap:


Maybe I will use it to tote a chicken around? (The chicken model's name is Katsu, He is actually a pillow from Anthropologie):
That's all the crafty news in Chicken land. Now back to your regularly scheduled program...