Newest -Floral Organza- Bag

This is my newest bag.

It's fully reversible, made with some of my very favourite fabrics.

One side is a black linen with some lovely ribbed texture and some of my newest striped cotton fabric -a muted green and white I'm besotted with.

The other side is a a sheer organza with an enormous, opaque floral print on it that I've lined with my trusty plain natural canvas.

You can't really see this in any of the pictures but up close you can see the canvas under the sheer parts of the organza. Especially when you move.

As has been my custom lately, I've made two identical bags.

Unfortunately, one has a little flaw........

I wouldn't sell it in any condition other than perfect, so you can expect a give-away soon.

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Brand New Circle Bag!

The latest challenge of the European Etsy Team , hosted by the marvellous Fishes Make Wishes is all about Geometric Beauty.
Since I've been making lots of Circle Brooches lately, I thought it would be a cop-out to just add one of those as my entry....
The point of these challenges is to be inspired to make something completely new.
So, springing off the challenge -but not being able to get away from the Circle alltogether-  I give you:

The Reversible White Cotton Tote with Large Pink and Red Mix Circle Applique Pocket.

As the -pretty descriptive- title suggests, it's a fully reversible white cotton bag...with a really big circle on it.

Which just happens to be a pocket.

It's like a giant Circle Brooch, made out of circles in a variety of my favourite red, pink and white fabrics.

Their edges -just like the brooches'- are  unfinished in order to get the shabby chic look that seems to be becoming something of a mania for me lately.

If you turn it inside-out, you get an antique-white natural cotton canvas bag.

Plain but for a square pocket in the same canvas with red stitching.

This is also made to fray into shabby-chicness. 

The straps are long wide and made of the same white cotton used on the outer bag.

Though it's not a big bag, it fits quite a lot because it's shaped like a market bag.

And it's listed in the shop!

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