Bag Tutorials

I’m back. Those are dangerous words. Perhaps I should have said, “I think I’m back.” The last several months have been a wild ride, and have included the illness and death of a parent, packing up a house, moving over 600 miles further north, applying for graduate school, getting settled again, and some freelance web design [...]

Buttercup Bag

There are quite a few bag tutorials on the internet these days, but I have to say that the Buttercup Bag from Made by Rae is one of the best (and cutest!) I’ve ever come across. I saw photos and references to this tutorial on several blogs, and just couldn’t resist it. Rae provides a [...]

Classic Tote

I usually greet the New Year with enthusiasm. No resolutions, just excitement over a fresh span of time stretching out in front of me, waiting for new projects and ideas. But so far, I’ve had a bit of a motivation problem in 2009, with little energy to execute the ideas that I do have. [...]

Picnic Bag

I think this bag is going to be my favorite. I love that you can open it almost flat to easily find your stuff. I won’t be using it as a handbag because it might be too easy for small items to fall out, but it’s called a picnic bag, and it will be perfect for carrying [...]

Fabric Basket

I found this fabric basket tutorial (courtesy of vlijtig) a couple of weeks ago and have been saving it for when I needed a simple but effective project. Tonight I carved out some time and completed one of these in less than an hour. That time included doing some calculations to convert metric to inches, [...]

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