A Couple of Custom Orders

The holidays are past, so I'm now free to show a few pictures of custom orders that I worked on the last month or so. Today I'll share a couple of the purses I made. The first was a mushroom purse. Mushroom purses have to be one of my favorite bags to make, and also the most admired and requested of all the designs I've made in the past.

I started with the inside. This is a pair of pockets. A larger patch pocket, and a smaller zipper pocket. I just adore the deer and mushroom fabric. It's so sweet!

Once I finished up the pocket, I tackled the outside. The outside is wool with cotton background for the appliqued design. Wool mushrooms, courderoy grass, and wool snail and dragonfly. It's lots of little pieces of fabric, and slow going because I'm constantly having to swap thread colors, but I just love how it turns out. This purse was the first time I had made a mushroom showing its underside; a nice detail that I'll do again.

And here's the finished purse. I sewed in the lining and added some nice green leather handles. I loved this so much, I made a bag similar in style for my sister, but using a different color scheme (charcoal grey wool outside, different inside fabric, etc.). I forgot to take pictures of it, though! The grey wool was a dream to work with; though—I think I'm going to have to make myself a bag using it.

The next purse I'll show you is a new pattern for my purses. So we'll call it this week's New Pattern Reveal!

This is a small evening purse with a fun shape and a single fabric handle arching across the top. Black cotton blend exterior, with metal rectangular "rings" to attach the handle.

The purse features soft gold wool star and moon appliques with machine and hand embroidery. I just scattered them across the front, with many different types of stars.

The cotton interior features a snap closure, and several pockets for small items.

I hope the recipients loved their new purses!