Momma's Got A New Bag!

Momma's got a new bag!

Here is my lovely new Birdie Sling (pattern by Amy Butler).





Recognize the fabric? That's the Ruby Star Rising fabric I used to make Delilah a dress back in THIS post. Ruby Star Rising was designed by a lovely local Atlanta artist, Melody Miller, and was released by Kokka. Isn't it just the coolest?





As for the pattern, it sewed up pretty easily. The body of the bag is lined with fusible fleece which gives it some body, and there are nice roomy pockets inside. This bag is HUGE! I took it out with Delilah and couldn't believe how much stuff I managed to fit in there.

I will definitely be making more Birdie Slings. The pattern was easy to follow and I think would be suitable for a beginner.

Sorry I haven't blogging lately. Just busy with life. I appreciate everyone who stops by when I do write a post.

Thanks for stopping by!


Janimal

Buttercup Bag Sewing

Hello Blog Friends!

Last week a friend came over after Delilah went to bed and we tackled making little purses.
(Check out this free pattern and tutorial of the Buttercup Bag from Made By Rae, HERE)

We made our way through putting together the Buttercup Bag. After making the first one, I knew I had to make another. For my favorite little person of course! Check out Delilah's Buttercup Bag!



That minky fabric shed all over my sewing room. But it was worth it. Delilah has been carrying her bag around with her since I gave it to her. She looked awfully cute as she swayed through Home Depot with it on Sunday.
When we go out shopping, Delilah clamors to hold my purse for me. So it was high time she had her own.

She kept it with her right up until bedtime. I think it coordinated well with her jammies!



(I think the look on her face is hilarious)

I had a half yard of some cute Amy Butler fabric and made another using an orange cotton for the lining. So cute I think!



Making these bags may be my new obsession. I have two more cut and ready to sew as gifts for some little girls. (With their names embroidered on, of course!)

To make these for little girls, I used velcro as the closure as I found the magnetic closure on my first one to be too strong for a small child to maneuver. Also, in the instructions, it says "attach straps" at the end. I sewed them on the outside per the instructions for the first one I made, but on these two versions I decided to sew the strap to the inside of the seam, so it looks a bit more finished. Here's a pic that shows the strap ends hidden inside the seam, rather than sewed to the outside.



(If anyone wants to know how I sewed the straps, email me and I am happy to send you pictures of how I did it.)

Here's a peek inside the other bag to see the velcro and the pocket.



I used sew on velcro. And it's the kind that has the hook and loop together rather than separate, to reduce the fuzzies that can caught up on the hook side of velcro. (Purchased at Hancock's)

Thanks for stopping by!

Janimal

Glam Up A Bag

I was inspired by this post on Sutton Grace to "glam up" a bag.

(Sutton Grace is one of my favorite blogs. The first blog of hers I first saw was THIS one of a homemade play kitchen from an entertainment center and I was hooked. Go check out her blog and wish, like me, that she was your next door neighbor so you could eat her food and copy her projects!)

Inspired by her blog, I decided to take a logo bag and make it more "me". So I took this bag that my husband brought home from work one day - it had been sitting in the back of a closet:

And turned it into this:

Here's a close-up of the patch:

MUCH BETTER! Not that there was anything wrong with the other logo, I just wanted something different. My bag redo is not as fancy as the inspiration bag. I didn't actually do that much. All I did was machine embroider a groovy camera design from Urban Threads onto some pink cotton, then sew the embroidered cotton onto the bag, kind of all haphazardly. I left the outside cut edges of the fabric to fray, because I think that might look cool. We'll see!

Thanks to Sutton Grace for the inspiration to cover logo bags!

Later skaters,

Janimal