Superstyle Bag Swap

I recently signed up for the SuperStyle Bag Swap from the Sew Mama Sew blog. All the participants were assigned a partner and told to make the other a bag by October 25th.

(It's pretty groovy to me that a bunch of total strangers can get together and decide on an honor system swap thingy like this.)

Here's the bag I made! Fabric is Innocent Crush Woodcut in Passion by Anna Maria Horner for the outside.




My original plan was to tackle a more complicated bag - but I needed to be realistic about the amount of time I would have to sew before the deadline. I bought the larger sized Buttercup Bag pattern from Made by Rae (the small version of the pattern is available for free HERE)


The lining is Willow Wren in Chartreuse by Alexander Henry.




My partner mentioned liking some owl print fabric that is in my stash. So I decided to pop some of it in the box with the purse as a little surprise!






Want to be inspired to make a bag?

The FlickR group for the bags is here

Fabrics for the purse were purchased at Whipstitch Fabrics. (I went to the local store but you can also buy from them online HERE. Excellent quality, beautiful fabrics, and nice people.)

I totally dig the whole SWAP idea. I want to do another one - so maybe I'll come up with one to coordinate myself. The question is, what to swap? I think a sewn toy swap might be fun....hmmmmmmmmmm.....suggestions?!?

Janimal