Posts by Kat
My 12 Favorite Customer Bags EVER!
So… I just recently realized that we had a significant anniversary last month and it’s definitely worth observing AND celebrating! It actually was the NINTH anniversary of our “Handbag of the Month” contest. It’s hard to believe and its been such a fun ride. I truly enjoy seeing ALL the pictures we receive, so keep…
Read MorePPC15: Kaleidoscopes Galore
So… as of our last post in this series, we were pretty much done making major changes and improvements in our new design for Fall 2017. Yeah, there were still a few notch placements to tweek, and a few places I wanted to experiment with procedure, but overall I knew it was time to stop sewing…
Read MorePPC15: With an Ethnic Flair
So in our last post in this series, I showed you the “Gorilla sample” for this our 15th cycle of Purse Pattern Chronicles, which means I not only carried it everywhere I went for a week or so, but that I was also ROUGH with it. Did I stomp on it or sling it across the…
Read MoreSIX Ways to Create a Stand Out Bag Exterior!
If you’re in the process of working out the details of the bag you want to submit to the 2018 Road 2 California Bag Challenge, then it’s pretty good bet that you’ll be interested in figuring out a way to make YOUR bag stand our from all the rest of the entries, right? And in…
Read MorePPC15: Migration
So… in our last post in this series, I showed you the “gorilla sample” for our new pattern for Fall 2017. And you might recall that while I was fairly pleased it, there were actually some significant changes I wanted to make in this go-round. But first things first… here’s the sample I created for this…
Read MoreAsk Kat: Will You Add a NEW Color to Your Hardware Line
So… here’s a question we get asked on a somewhat regular basis, especially when we’re vending at retail shows…. “Will you ever add another color option to your hardware line, besides just gold or nickel?” The most common color requests? Based on what we hear, the most popular colors that we do NOT carry at…
Read MorePPC15: The Gorilla Sample
So… in our last post in this series I showed you the prototype sample for our new design for Fall 2017! And you know what? Here’s something I’ve noticed in the past year or so…. it takes me SO much less time to get from the “prototype stage” to the gorilla sample than it used to, and that’s a…
Read MorePPC15: The Prototype
So… since we showed you the original sketches for our new design in our last post, that means NOW it’s time to show you our first prototype, but before we get started let me remind you of a few things! First off- This is NOT a complete bag. It’s more like a shell of a bag. There’s…
Read MorePPC15: The Sketchwork
So… in our 1st post in this, our 15th cycle of Purse Pattern Chronicles, I told you that I was kinda surprised to see that it’s actually been TEN cycles since we’ve released a true handbag pattern. And by that I mean a shoulder bag that’s not too big, but big enough to carry everything most women need…
Read MorePPC15: The Inspiration
So… it’s time once again to start “talking” about what’s on our design table, because I’m excited about our new pattern for Fall 2017 and I’m ready to begin the slow reveal process! And actually, this time around I started asking myself the “What’s Next” question WEEKS before our Spring pattern was released! Festival Pocket…
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