Baby Nicole's Purple Tote

What better gift for a new baby and her parents could there be but a little tote just big enough for a bottle and a few diapers and wipes? You knew I would suggest a handmade tote didn't you? If Mommy and Daddy need to toss in a wallet and cellphone, there is room for that too.

Baby Nicole loves purple, or so her parents think. This bag mixes the durability of sturdy denim, which you need with a messy baby, with a sweet lilac Laura Ashley print. The inside was lined with soft lilac satin and even has a pocket for keys or other Nicole toys.

Baby Nicole's tote will be off and ready to cross state lines soon.

Oh, it's Scotch Guarded too, even sweet baby Nicole will tangle with a little baby mess now and again. Trust me, I know of these things.

Pass The Pen, Please

If there are any last souls on this planet who still do not schedule their lives on blackberries, who don't send all their notes through an IPhone or dare I say it....need a pen and a piece of paper now and again, you've come to the right place.

I'm this person. My cell phone is the $19.99 model and usually sits idol until I think to recharge it's dead battery only to find out I did indeed have a message. But it is pink, it's only redeeming character. It makes me chuckle when I hold it's $.10 body of pink plastic. Needless to say the Barbie phone is not cutting it when I need to take a message or remind myself with a note. Or provide a quick form of entertainment for my 2 year old.

Here she is....Pass The Pen

It is a tri-fold with room for a collection of business cards...3 pens and a 3"x5" pad of paper!





Then you fold her up and toss her in your purse, or stash in your glove compartment so you might have a 50/50 chance of really having a pen handy at the bank when you need it.









This is just the prototype, which I am giving to the gal who came up with the idea in the first place. I'll see if I can whip up a few more to sell.

The Pink Williamsburg Wristlet

Of all the little wristlet fun bags out there in the world...and you had to walk into my sewing room.

Swoon...it's killing me to send this one off in her little pepto bismo pink gift bag, I'd rather keep her and take her out to dinner myself. The pepto bismo gift bags were of course an internet purchase gone wrong...way wrong. But what is one supposed to do with 250 pink plastic gift bags that weighed about 80lbs. when they arrived UPS on the doorstep? Send them back because the color looks like an upset stomach?

I digress. This little out and about wristlet was commissioned for a birthday gift. May she bring good wishes to her new home.

Floppy Fringe

I was asked to make this little black and tan bag with floppy fringe for a friend who has amazing web site development talents. More on the web site developments here at Pink Evita very soon. Yes, I am completely aware of the fact that anyone who knows me in person has been graciously tolerating my empty promises of a fully functioning Pink Evita dot com web site for more months that I care to count. However...it is close...really close. Seriously, I'm not kiddding it will be done before 2010. Way before then.

Anyway, this bag is for a very talented lady who is raising a wonderful little genius. May their talents take them far.

Amy Butler Bags...Completed by following instructions

I rarely spend big bucks on patterns, call me el cheapo at heart. And, when I see something I like, I'm likely to have this moment where by I say to myself "Well, I could probably figure that out." Which 1/2 the time I cannot. I also have myself convinced some of the time that patterns stunt my creativity. But the reality of it is that when I do use patterns I always learn something new. This ultimately makes me more creative and daring for future projects which are wholly my own.

Where is all of the existentalism going on the craft blog? I recently sprung for the Amy Butler Sophia Carry All and the Weekend Traveler patterns. I was so darn excited I could hardly stand it when they came in the mail. I skipped from the mail box to the couch to read and re-read the instructions.

Then, the very next day I went to one of my favorite fabric stores and spent way too much money on expensive fabric. No pressure or anything making sure this project comes out!


Here is the Sophia bag all made up. I'm pretty pleased with it. It has a double open purse zipper and everything. The false bottom turned out great too. Although making the piping by hand covering 1/4" cotton cording...ugh, the tedium. And stress to make sure it gets added to the bag evenly.

Next up...the matching weekender bag. Wheee....

Wavy stripes of Chenille

Oh, how I love the way this bag has all these amazing soft waves of chenille. It is topped off with cranberry fringe that slips through your fingers when you go to pop your hand in the bag.

The lady who designed it chose a super cute cranberry floral for the lining that matches perfectly but is unexpected.

Making this bag was making me a warm and toasty...thinking about cool fall breezes.

I've got to snap out of it and start working with the cool summer colors I still have back there in the sewing room.

Hope Miss Wavy Chenille is happy in her new home, she's being boxed up and sent out tomorrow.

Peachy Keen With A Twist of Brown

I just finished this darling 10"x10" peachy brown bag for a special order client. She designed the bag and she really wanted to mix the light cotton with the heavier chocolate brown velvet chenille. The chenille was left over from fall and the floral print is brand new.

The trick to this was to heavily interface the light weight cotton so the finished results would be seemless as far as the weights of the two materials. And, heavily interfaced it is, the thing could probably walk away on its own if I had given it legs. It's the first time I had worked with the super stiff Pelex material.

She also wanted the fringe doubled up. Of course that creates a very fuzzy top. It's perfect balance with the heavier bottom.

So there it is...it will be off in a box to it's new home this weekend.