Another Bag!

So far, this is the only bag that doesn't yet have a home.  My step brother called and left me a message a few weeks ago about wanting to add my bags to his booth at my home town's farmer's market on the downtown square.  I felt so complimented that he thinks my bags are of a quality to potentially garner interest from buyers.  But as you know, I pretty much have a home for them before I am even finish making them.  So, I have been trying find time to complete a few - sending just one to him doesn't really seem right for him or his potential customers.  (My hubby likes this one best of all so far and is often hinting as to who I might consider giving it to - I'm afraid it may not last long enough for me to complete a couple more for the booth.)

Something for the granddaughter....

Knee deep in good ole Sparkie towels - but I do take a break on occassion to do something else.  For the past few weeks I have had a second machine - for sewing.  The Brother machine I gave me daughter was going unused at her house so I asked if I could take it back.  It's been rather nice starting  a longer segment of embroidery on one machine then sitting down to the other to sew.  So after I got all the appliques in place on this outfit, I took it to the sewing machine to piece together while ole Sparkie was stitching away on my Innov-is 900D.  But all good things come to an end and this weekend daughter asked for the machine back so she and hubby could make something or other for their classrooms (teachers).  

Anyway, the granddaughter likes buttons so I looked for appliques that would allow easy incorporation of buttons as embelishments  - buttons on the flipflops include bumble bees, shells, and flowers.

Closure.....

My daughter wants a longer strap.  My mother wants closures of some type.  Well, haven't gotten around to re-figuring the fabric requirement to make the straps a little longer, but with this attempt I did add two heavy duty snaps at the base of the straps.  It's the first time I've attached this types of snaps on anything.  The directions on the package were confusing - the illustrations less than adequate. My first attempt - ruined two snaps.  Second time around, I got the snap parts in the wrong places on the first snap, but got it right on the second snap.  The end result is - both snaps work, but they face two different ways (though the outside of the bag is correct. Kind of hard to explain......

Prototype

We are a very small school district.  The class of 1960 is planning their 50 year reunion.  We have this cute little sparkplug cartoon character as a mascot.  We are one of those unique schools with a one of a kind mascot.  Not another "Sparkplug" anywhere.  But in 1960 "Sparkie", the school mascot, was a plug - - a horse.  One of the class members aged ole Sparkie a bit - creating a more ...   mature Sparkie ... to use in conjunction with their 50 year reunion.  They had decided to have some kind of memorabilia created for the reunion but in researching so far have found businesses that will take the more mature Sparkie art work and reprint and embroider it only when buying somewhere in the hundreds.   So, I said I would take a stab at it. I created a blackline "master" of ole Sparkie and scanned it into my digitizing software to create an embroidery design - then stitched on a cheap Wal-mart hand towel.

Here is the first sample....