Cream Nic Nac Bag

Today I visited Nicola for some general sewing chat, meet the new puppy and to get some top tips for making little make up / nic nac bags.

Nicola is the queen of bag making and it was fascinating to hear some of her little tricks of the trade.  I even made a little quilted bag!  That’s it in the piccys – the cream one.  No it’s not wonkey, it’s the terrible camera on my phone hehe.  I also snapped it next to some similar bags which Nicola had already made.  All in all I think it held up ok.

Naturally there were cups of tea, some fabric shopping and lots of cuddles with Jasper the new puppy.  Of course this meant I had to undergo a full blown sniff inspection from my own dawgies when I arrived home.

Now all I have to do is remember how I made that bag and try to reproduce it without the guru at my side……

A bag for the fair…

Recently I’ve been looking for a shoulder bag.  I have a lovely tote bag which was a present from Maytheweed, but since it says ‘I knit so no one has to die’ on the side it’s not really suitable for strolling down the High Street.  I’ve been wanting something a little more dressy.  You know the sort, big enough to get all your stuff in without having to resort to a rucksack.  Well given my monumental failure to find anything that was just right I decided to make one instead.

It’s very much based on the free pattern on the Lula Louise website with a little bit of tweaking.  For instance I used an interfacing to give it more rigidity and also added an interior pocket.  The fabric came from a local fabric shop and was even in the sale.  Normally when I wander round and just look for what I like you can guarantee that I’ll gravitate towards the most expensive stuff they stock.  So I was delighted to see this was in the sale.

You can probably just see that the fabric has a pattern and I knew straight away I wanted this to run vertically on the bag rather than horizontally.  This necessitated buying much more fabric in order to cut the pattern in the correct orientation.  The side effect is that I have quite a lot left over, which can be used for something else.  How tragic is that hehe…

Named the ‘Cream Rose Bag’ for obvious reasons it’s first outing was last weekend to the Bead Fair.  In general I’m was very happy with it, although if I was to make another I would look into one of those magnetic bag fasteners, just for that added piece of mind.