Look what DH made for me....

Garth made two hook thingies for the wall of my sewing room......to hang bags on.

  I have a glass pane door for light and as incentive to keep the sewing room from looking like a bomb went off.  I must say it works. 

Here is another in the organic collection

Another bag in my new collection.  The organic fabrics, silk screens, and hand stamped are finally getting more and more available to us.  For a long time it Ink and Spindle in Australia and various artisans whose hemp, linen, bamboo and organic cotton fabrics were just too expensive.  Well, I did eventually find some of what I have been looking for at Birch and from several Etsy sellers.  Hand dyes...hand printed with eco-friendly dies.  For a bag it may sound frivolous, but to me it feels right.  This week I made two more bags for a total now of six.  Not much, but a start......here are the new ones....

In the spirit...I use post-consumer mailers (plastic-thank you for your cottage cheese container), and recycled tissue paper to wrap, bamboo fibre string to put the package together.  All these things are from Etsy sellers.  That says a lot.

It's week 6, no 5 is it 7??.

Really it is week six of the Sew Spoiled Weekender Tote Sew Along (or SSSA) ...but I went ahead and finished.  The project is blogged here .   Go take a look at what the others in the group are doing.  Also, we post our progress on Flikr.  Click the link to see those too.  Here are some pics of what I have done.

The magnetic closure is in now.... and here you can see the huge pocket.

 And here, turned right side out and top stitched.  Now for an accessory:

...how about a wristlet/clutch/keyfob?  

There they are...big bag and little bag.

My linen experiment...

My linen experiment...,
originally uploaded by SquareBag.

I am sending photo of this bag to a lot of the  groups I belong to on Flickr. I would appreciate feedback on size, shape and using natural fibres.

Frankly, it came out looking utilitarian when I made the first one. So on the second try, I added the quilting. There is a beaded zipper pull too.

Now...have I overdone it? The idea is natural and organic, and I want to start a line of linen, hemp, bamboo, etc. bags in my etsy shop....think they might be what folks would like?

This is a trial balloon and I appreciate your input, so please be honest.  The easiest way to comment would be to click on the bag photo in the upper right.  That takes you directly to Flickr where there is a section to leave your comment.

Where is everybody???

I am ooking through my blogroll this week and it is very quiet!  Where did everybody go? 

Quilt Market!!  New fabrics are on the way to my fave shops and the older ones are on sale?  Stand back PayPal, here I come.

Look at all these wonderful creations...there is a ton more, but I think I have exceeded my limit of photo heavy posts.  All this is over at Hawthorne Threads

I STILL don't get it..

I just ordered Twitter For Dummies.....I  simply cannot figure out how to twitter effectively.   I don't want to spam, but that seems to be what it is all about. I do want to promote this blog for those who are interested and the same for my Etsy shop.  Why do I need to use # and @ and what is FF?

The Gathered Clutch....and a few more..

Love it...here it is finished.  The pattern that Noodlehead shared.

Also....since I am trending toward a bit of organic, natural and sustainable in my shop, I have ordered some lovely linens and hemp.  I already have bamboo fabrics, so I guess I just have to get sewing.  The other day I put this one together for my shop.  It is hand printed (stamped) linen from Australia.

This little one, I will probably

keep for myself,  but not sure....

This fabric is from Japan.  A lovely, medium-weight linen.    It was along one of the selvages, just little phrases that were so charming, I used it for the strap.

Also, in the clutch department

....this one was just listed on SquareBag.   Pattern from Keyka Lou .  I would suggest you check out her blog if you are into making bags. Lots of great patterns that you can use to make bags to sell.