Posts by Kat
PPC33: the Cignet Phone Pal Introductory Video
The Cignet Phone Pal pattern and webpage have been released! It’s a great little bag that perfect for carrying your phone and just enough other essentials for a shopping trip, a sporting event or a travel excursion! Please click HERE to see more pictures & get more info about the Cignet Phone Pal pattern. And…
Read MorePPC33: the Cignet Phone Pal Pattern Release
Today is the day!!! The Carolinian pattern is FINALLY ready for release to the public! And we’re celebrating in our usual way!
Read MorePPC33: the Cignet Phone Pal Pattern Cover Reveal
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 grace the pattern cover for our next new pattern of 2025, the Cignet Phone Pal. Thanks SO much to everyone who voiced their opinion! Pattern design can be rather solitary…
Read MoreHelp Us Choose the Cignet Phone Pal Cover Model
So…. we’re almost ready to finish up another pattern! But before we can, we need to choose the ONE sample that will totally represent our new Cignet Phone Pal 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…
Read MorePPC33: Palatial Stripe
So… this is the last sample we will show you before it’s time for us to choose the ONE special sample to grace the cover of our new pattern as our “Cover Model”! More on that in a bit, but first, let me give you a quick tour! And since I’ve had such success using…
Read MorePPC33: Poppies
So… in our last TWO posts which you can see HERE & HERE, I shared my take on how I re-fabricated this terrific Poppy fabric by Chong-A Hwang so that it could “work” for our new bag design, our Cignet Phone Pal pattern. You might recall that I did in fact fussy-cut the fabric…
Read MoreCase Study #1: Plan A becomes B…C… D..?
So… I saw this fabric online (“Poppy Dreams” by Chong-A Hwang for Timeless Treasures) & given the vertical nature of the print, I thought it might be just perfect for our new pattern design!
And it was… ALMOST!
Case Study #1: Re-fabricating… Plan A
So… the bag pattern I’m currently working on, the Cignet Phone Pal, is perfect for a vertically-centered design! And when I saw this fabric online, it seemed tailor-made for my pattern! The only thing is— when the fabric arrived, it wasn’t quite what I needed. You see, there are two sized panels done in repeat…
Read MorePPC33: Happy-Go-Lucky
So… if you’re thinking that you’ve seen this fabric before on one of our samples… You’d be RIGHT! we actually first used it in the process of creating the Double Take pattern, way back in Purse Pattern Chronicles 28. I liked it a lot then, but I almost think that I like it MORE NOW!…
Read MorePPC33- Denim Fantasy
So… I needed to make one more sample in order to do all the little step drawings since it was time to start work on the pattern instructions, but my shipment of new fabrics was late & nothing in my stash was inspiring me, so…
I did something I haven’t done in a long, LONG time! I “fabricated” my own fabric!
