Posts by Kat

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 third design for 2020, the ErgoMatic. Thanks SO much to everyone who participated! Pattern design can be rather solitary work and I always enjoy hearing…

So… with yet another pattern almost in the books, it’s time to choose the ONE bag sample that best represents the ErgoMatic design for the pattern cover! In order to do this, I like thinking about which of our samples would most appeal to our customers… which one would gather the most attention at shows……

So… it’s hard to believe that I’m already showing you the last sample we’ve made in the long process of bringing yet another new bag pattern to market! Gosh… has 2020 been a strange year or what? But if you’ve been following us for any length of time, you most likely know what comes next…

So… we’re getting close to the end of our sampling making for the ErgoMatic design! As a matter of fact, we only have one more sample to show you after this one, so I hope you’ve been keeping track of which one YOU would feature on the cover of the pattern if it were YOUR…

So… now that I’ve got three of these samples under my belt, I feel like I finally have a good idea of how I want to use my fabric to best advantage! Funny how some bags just take a while to “get to know”, right? Anyway, I saw this fabric online and instantly fell in…

So… I fell SO much in love with this fabric that I couldn’t decide which colorway to choose! No surprise that I finally settled on the purple /blue version, right? But here’s the deal, as much as I loved it, I had a really hard time coming up with complimentary/contrasting fabrics to use with it.…

So… in our last post we showed you our first bonafide sample for the new design for Fall 2020, our THIRD new design of this strange year! And truth is, I liked a LOT of things about that sample but there were also a few things that I knew needed to be fixed or changed…

So… in our last post I showed you the “Gorilla” sample for this new design which you might recall that I was quite satisfied with how it turned out and was ready to make up a true, show-worthy sample, complete with most if not of all the features I have planned. And here’s what I…