Posts Tagged ‘handbagpatterns’
Our 2024 Holiday Bag Sale
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…
Read MoreQuilt Festival ’24: Something New!
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…
Read MoreQuilt Market ’24- What’s in Store?
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…
Read MorePPC32: Owls in Disguise?
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!
Read MoreBag Making: A Pressing Matter
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…
Read MorePPC31: Wings of Gold… a Remake
So… turns out I’ve had a blast re-imagining some of the samples I made during the runup to the High Seas Convertible pattern release and this make the 4th such remake we’ve created…but all good things must come to an end and this remake will sadly be the last for quite some time. And as…
Read MorePPC31: Purple Paisley… a Remake
So… turns out I’ve had a blast re-imagining some of the samples I made during the runup to the High Seas Convertible pattern release. As mentioned in a previous post, I’m trying something new for the 2024 Fall International Quilt Market. I’ll be selling some of my samples at the Quilt Market (along with a…
Read MorePPC31: Color & Light… a Remake
So… do you enjoy our last post in this series where we shared a remake of one of our original samples we made in the runup to the High Seas Convertible release? As mentioned in a previous post, we’ll be trying something new at the 2024 Fall International Quilt Market. I’ll be selling some of…
Read MorePPC31: Flowering Stripes – A Remake
So… we’ll be trying something new at the 2024 Fall International Quilt Market, which has been recommended to me for several years by good friend & fellow vendor, (Carol McCleod of Auntie’s Two Patterns). Carol’s been encouraging me to sell some of my samples at the Quilt Market (along with a dozen patterns for each…
Read MorePPC31: the High Seas Convertible 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 2nd new pattern of 2024, the High Seas Convertible. Thanks SO much to everyone who voiced their opinion! Pattern design can be rather solitary…
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