Posts by Kat

Today is the day!!! The Carolinian pattern is FINALLY ready for release to the public! And we’re celebrating in our usual way! 

    So… in our last post we had a little fun letting YOU be the designer and choosing which of our bag samples YOU would choose to stand alone on the pattern cover for our first new pattern of 2026, the Expand-o-Matic.   Thanks SO much to everyone who voiced their opinion! Pattern design…

So…. we’re almost ready to publish another pattern! But before we can do that, we need to choose the ONE sample that will best represent our new Expand-o-Matic design & become the “cover model” for the pattern! To do this, I like thinking about which of our samples would most appeal to our customers… which…

So… I have this one last sample to show you before its time to choose ONE to be represent all of them on the pattern cover. That’ll be the next post in this series that we share with you… coming up soon, right after the holidays, but in the meantime, let me give you the low-down…

So… as you might surmise from our last post, we’re coming close to wrapping up this round of Purse Pattern Chronicles. As we “speak”, I’m pretty much beyond the sample-making process & moving on to marketing plans, product videos, final photos, & website development. I do have a couple of samples yet to show you…

So… it seems like its been such a LONG time since I was able to get back in the saddle & back to work on this new design… what with the time it took to get caught up from Quilt Market & Festival in Houston, and the fact that I came home with a significant…