Day Fifty Six, Bag Sixty Seven

Pink and Green Hearts Design Susan, Small

This Susan Bag is embellished with three colors of crystals. The pink and green hearts have matching crystals, and the black hearts have 3 clear crystals dripping down their centers. The green bow and ribbon accent matches with the lime green fabric that lines the bag. A super cute version of this design. 

Here is a closeup of the crystal design and the ribbon band on the bag. It is super bright and summery, a great tote for vacation, or shopping, it will even keep you cheered up as you get ready to go back to school!

This is the bright green lining and the heart design pocket. All of the pockets on my bags are fully lined and have two rows of stitching to keep them firmly attached. This style of bag also has my teal and bronze glitter label inside the bag, and my Tibetan silver charm on the outside. 

That's all for day 56, thanks for checking it out, see you tomorrow for another great handmade bag!

Day Fifty Five, Bag Sixty Six

Susan black and White Hounds Tooth with Teal,Small

Now I am back to other bags for a few days. I cut a dozen Susan patterns earlier this week, so that will be the bag of choice for a few days. 

The ribbon used for this bag is bright teal in a 7/8" width. It matches pretty closely with the lining, the bag measures 11" tall, 3" deep at the base, and 16" across at the base.

The pocket inside is made from the hounds tooth pattern, and the label is on the left rear of the bag. The handles are four layers of heavy duck cloth and very sturdy, they measure 28" long. 

Here is a close up on the bow,it is stitched down so it will not unravel. I really like the combinations of black and white print with a bright lining and bow accent, this will be coming up a lot more in the near future.

Thanks for checking out day 55, see you tomorrow with something that sparkles!

Day Fifty Four, Bag Sixty Four

Kelly Key Fob, Circles

This is the fifth shape in the Kelly key Fob bags. The circles were cut from a slightly larger 6"  base piece so they are a little roomier than the earlier bags but still very compact. This style is large enough to fit an I.D., business cards, credit cards, cash, change and of course keys!

These are the first two in the circle pattern, a blue and brown swirl print for number 64, ans pink hounds tooth for number 65. 

The brown and blue has a light blue lining, and dark stained wood bead. 

The pink hounds tooth has a blonde wood bead and light pink lining.

There are now 18 of this style done and only 17 more to go, don't worry I only have one more day of this design left for now and I will give you all a break and show you something new for tomorrow. These are a very easy little bag, I got the idea from a crafting blog and made my own shapes and adjusted the pattern to make a larger bag, I also added the split ring to accommodate keys. These are approximately 5" across on the center and the zipper opens to just over 4" so there is room to fit your whole hand inside if you need to dig for something! The original design only gave a 2" zipper opening with approximately a 3" bag. 

Thanks for checking out day 54, see you tomorrow!

Day Fifty Three, Bag Sixty

Kelly Key Fobs, Football

So, football is totally patriotic right? It is in my family anyway, I don't remember many holidays without some sport playing in one room while food was being cooked in another. So this is my football shape, I am actually pretty happy with it even though I was not sure how I would feel once I had all of these cut and waiting to be assembled. It is not wide enough to hold anything substantial, but it is still totally functional as a coin purse or small wallet. 

It also looks like my husband was a little lazy and photographed this bunch with their show tags on them. 

Bag 60 is in the pink hounds tooth, with a pink cotton lining. 

Bag 61, is in Latte Circles, with a dark grey lining.

Bag 62 Is the Paris and Poodles, chartreuse print, this bag has a lime green cotton lining. 

Bag 63 is the Watermelon Waves with a Hot Pink lining.

The zipper pulls for all of the Kelly Key Fobs has a length of satin ribbon and a wooden bead for a decorative touch. Some of the beads are stained a dark wood stain and some are a blonde wood that looks nearly white. The football shape was made from a 4" square. That was the original size before the shape was cut and it was cut on the diagonal so this bag is very long for a small coin purse. The split rings on top are great to make this a key chain or for attaching it to the front or strap of a bag. This particular bag was a pretty fun design to make, there was a lot of variability in it because of the different shapes and fabrics combinations. I have 36 of these to make for my show but the 20 I have done so far will be it for at least a couple of weeks, I need some new fabric scraps to work with. Because these are small enough I have not been cutting fresh fabric to make them, I have only been working with pieces that are too small for my full size bags but not small enough to discard, so I have to wait until I cut in to all my new fabric to gt at the new designs!

Thanks for checking out day 53, see you tomorrow for day 54! I have some really cute stuff coming up soon made from my new fabrics and new colors!

Day Fifty Three, Bag Fifty Eight

Kelly Key Fob, Hearts

Here is design number three in the Kelly Key Fobs. Hearts. I started with only two to ,make sure the pattern had no major glitches, and I would say they came out great!

Here are bags number 58 and 59! Bag 58 is the hearts with hearts bag, here is a closeup of the inside lining, done in lime green with my new labels attached!

Bag 59 with it's bright blue lining and new label exposed!, I am super in love with my new labels, teal with copper glitter Fleur De Lis on them. I am throwing my logo on everything in my housed that will stand still right now!

The zippers came to me through a friend about 7 years ago, she had a huge box full of hundreds of small zippers. I have been holding on to them hoping to have a project for them and these are a perfect use for the zippers, they are metal teeth which is sometimes harder to work with because they cannot be re sized easily, though brass teeth zippers are super durable!

Thanks for checking out day 53, see you tomorrow, 4th of July with something patriotic!

Day Fifty, Bag Fifty Two

Kelly Key Fob, Octagon

I will not always have multiple items in a blog but since I will be making so many of these little things for the show I thought I would combine them in order to keep from having key fobs every day for the next month and a half. This is pattern number 2 the Octagon, it is cut from the same size piece originally but it does seem to be quite a bit smaller than the square so I may increase the size of the piece just a bit in the future to gt a full 4" in the finished design. 

Here is an assortment of 6 Kelly key fobs. There is a wide variety of colors and prints. I am trying to match my bags though I will not be able to match all of them, some of my fabrics such as the navy celestial print, are completely gone, so there will be a little bit of a limited quantity of these. Here are some individual photos to show each print and color combination.

Watermelon Waves with Lime Green lining. Bag 52

Grey S Print with Cherry Red lining. Bag 53

Blue Paisley with light blue lining. Bag 54

Pink Bow Skulls with pink and black lining. Bag 55

Blue Hounds Tooth with white lining. Bag 56

Black and White Hounds Tooth with Lime Green lining. Bag 57

I have gotten some feedback lately that ther is no link to my Etsy store in my blog. I did originally set my blog to have a tag line at the end that was my web store link, I am not sure why that is not showing up so I will try to remember to include the link myself. I will say that the last two weeks worth of bags have not yet been listed, I have been really busy with work, making bags, and family obligations and doing listings takes a lot of time. I will try to get those up some time this week before I have my nieces and nephew for a few days again. If there is something you like you can always message me here on the blog or through my Etsy, if you don't see a listing that does not mean it is not for sale it just means I haven't got one up yet, and I can get one up for you if there is something you would like. 

Thanks for checking out day 50, I am almost to 2 months so that is pretty good! See you tomorrow for Football shaped Kelly Key Fobs!

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Day Forty Nine, Bag Forty Nine

Kelly Key Fobs, Square

This is technically bags # 49, 50, and 51, but who's counting anyway! I saw this little project on another blog a few days ago and I did make a few changes so the design and function is entirely my own making. These started out as a little tutorial for coin purses that were only a couple of inches across and now I have key fobs that are just over 4" square and will fit not only coins but an id, credit cards, cash, business cards, and will also attach to your keys to keep it at hand. 

Here is an assortment of 3 made from the square pattern. Each has a ribbon and a wooden bead adornment on the zipper pull, each one is fully lined and the raw edges have been stitched to keep it from fraying, and each one has a split ring on the top for keys or easy attachment to the front or inside of your purse. I have one attached to the front of my purse done in the same fabric so it blends, and it is holding my business cards. I can never find my card holder quite fast enough when I am out running around and need to hand one out. Now I don't have to fumble it's right there front and center. 

Here is a shot of the interior, this is the bag I kept myself, it matches my Large Audrey bag that I carry. This is a great small exchange gift, or a quick add on to a larger bag, I am trying to do them in matching fabrics and colors to all of my larger bags. I know more of that prep work for my upcoming craft show. I have been coming up with so many new ideas these past few weeks and I can't start work on new prototypes until I have my inventory in place for the show and I can't keep adding new designs to the inventory list so I have to stop making new bags for now and focus on my current designs and making those all special. So for the next few weeks the blog will be some repeat designs but hopefully there will be enough variety in the new fabrics to keep you coming back. Here are a couple more pictures to round out today's grouping.

I love the bright interior colors! These little bags were the surprise I was talking about the other day, I finally had time to get them done, I spent all night last night cutting, and I spent a large portion of today sewing and prepping more bags. I thought a multi bag listing was a good start o the week. See you tomorrow for day 50!