new bags

It's interesting for me to look at my process for making a bag.  I often get an idea or inspiration from a bag days or weeks before it's made.  I have a running list of different images and corresponding words I'd like to pair with each one.  Yet, when I finally sit at the sewing table and get out my chalk to draw my image, inevitably the image turns out to be totally different than what I thought I was going to work on.  So far, each bag has been something that was not on one of my lists or something I'd thought of before I sat down to sew.  I think my own openness throughout the process of creating each one has been something novel and enthralling for me.  I'm normally so much more of a planner, yet working within the familiarity of the tote pattern has allowed me to open up more- to allow my creations to truly be created in that space of time that I'm sewing.  Needless to say, I'm having SO much fun making these bags and am looking forward to giving them away soon. 

Thank you to those who have expressed interest in purchasing them- I am slowly putting together orders- though each one is custom-made with a different fabric for the image (I'm working through my scraps pile).  I'm thinking $20 for the smaller tote and $25 for the larger one.  I have a really hard time asking for money for these, though as they are truly a gift for me to be able to make them...so if you want one and have a different price in mind, I'm sure I'd be open to it :) 

Oh!  And I have one more style bag that I've yet to debut.  Waiting for a smaller stamp to come in so I can make a sample to show.