Applique purse

This is a little purse I made for my mum on Mother's day but my daughter wanted to design one for herself so we made another one (see below).

For the last year I have been concentrating on design and product development . I sent some of my products to UK as you know the market is currently slow to recover and everybody wants to buy bargain. I have used this development time well by taking courses and learning more skills.

It's been very interesting talking with other craft people about how we turn great design into good business. It is almost impossible to reflect the many hours of pain staking work and passion that goes into creating these collectables in their marketable value. I will continue with this work however as I love it so much. Everytime I sit down to make another piece there is great excitement about the finished article and immersing myself in this work takes me to another world.

Applique purse

This is one of my favourite little purses in a cotton/linen mix. Based on a design from Shinnie I always take great pleasure in varying the design to my own tastes in material and color.

Applique: Digital Camara bag

Hey guys how cute is this? It's digital camera bag, in a cotton-linen mix. Simple and yet so so collectable.

Applique bag

A small shoulder bag. It's simple applique.

Applique: Bag

Applique and Patchwork technique for this bag. Appique detail was Sunbonet Sue on cotton linen,  patchwork mixed of japanese country cottons.

Applique: Fold up shopping bag

 

Just want to try and be current about Global warming! Re-useable shopping bags are increasing in their use which is better news for the environment. Its nice to put some thought, effort and detail even into something as simple as this to perhaps encourage the owner to use it over and over again with minimum impact on our surroundings.

 

This folding bag I made for my mother in law when she came from England to visit us. In the UK some shopping malls like M&S charge a small amount for plastic bags. It's not much but they just want people to decrease the use of plastic bags and collect points by using their own re-useable bags. I hope to see this one day in Thailand. I think we use way too many plastic bags!

 

This fold away bag has some style when folded up so it's no great shakes to carry it as an accessory until it comes time to fill it with shopping. The decorated panel is simply attached to a carry bag of your choice and will contain the folded bag neatly until time to use it.

Shoulder bag

One more design of Shinnie my favorite character. I personaly enjoy to make small purse, this one for my sister. It's mixed of japanese country cotton and cotton, the handle was leather made good impact.