Our 4th Annual Advent Calendar Sale!

A calendar with the numbers 1 through 2 3 on it.

It’s that time again! Our 2024 Advent Calendar Sale starts at MidNight! And no, we’re not selling calendars! This sale will work just like an Advent Calendar does! It’s fun, it’s easy and its a great way to stock up for those projects you might be planning to take on during those cold, dark upcoming…

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Our 2024 Holiday Bag Sale

Studio Kat Designs

Our 2024 Holiday Bag Sale Starts Monday! Even the most confirmed “Bag Addict” (of which I am one), can only house but so many bags in her closet, so…. once per year (or so) we throw open our closets & offer you some fantastic deals on sample bags that will no longer be traveling with…

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Quilt Market & Festival ’24: My Favorite Quilts

A painting of a tea pot and other things in a frame.

So… the competition quilts at Quilt Market & Festival were truly fantastic! It was a marvelous collection but I had a very hard time finding time to wander among all of the possibilities due to my illness & the need to be in communication with the authorities back in North Carolina due to my Dad’s…

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Quilt Festival ’24: Something New!

A table with many different bags and purses

So… the thing that makes planning so difficult for Quilt Festival, is that it comes right on the heels of and, in the same facility of the Quilt Market. Quilt Festival is of course, a retail show, but Market is strictly wholesale, our ONLY wholesale show of the year. And the thing is… I generally…

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the November’24 Eye Candy Showcase

A collage of different bags and purses with the words " the november 2 0 2 4 eye candy showcase ".

As you probably know… there’s no other post I enjoy more than our monthly “Eye Candy Showcase! What fun it is see what our customer’s create using our patterns! take on our various designs! This month we have eight fabulous bags to show you, so what are we waiting for… Let’s Get Started! Beach season…

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Quilt Market ’24- What’s in Store?

A table with several bags of different designs.

So… we’re less a couple of days away from the 2024 version of the International Fall Quilt Market and just so you know… I can’t believe that this will be our 17th straight Fall Quilt Market, (not counting 2020 & 2021, the Covid years, where Quilt Market was cancelled 2 years in a row). And…

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PPC32: Owls in Disguise?

A close up of the front of a purse

If you’re following along on the progress of this design, you might remember from our last post, that as pleased as we were with that sample, there were still quite a few smallish-type changes I felt were called for!

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PPC32: On the QT

A blue and orange bag with flowers on it

So… you might remember from our last post, that as much as we liked our “Gorilla Sample”, there were some specific areas where we felt that some changes were in order!

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the October’24 Eye Candy Showcase

A collage of different bags with the words october 2 4 eye candy showcase.

As you probably know… there’s no other post I enjoy more than our monthly “Eye Candy Showcase! What fun it is see what our customer’s create using our patterns! take on our various designs! This month we have eight fabulous bags to show you, so what are we waiting for… Let’s Get Started! To kick…

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Bag Making: A Pressing Matter

A close up of the back of a bag

So… over the last 20 some odd years that I’ve been designing bag patterns, I’ve fielded LOTS of questions about bagmaking, but you know what? The question I most often get asked is… “What can I do to make my bags look more professional?” And the truth is… this questions is actually the absolute easiest…

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