After a long, busy summer and fall season with the company I sew and do a little designing with and for, I've been sewing purses again! With a crazy fury, too. I've made a ton of new clutches and a new line of purses which I WILL make a special post about very soon. Most of these you can find at the Cindy Saadeh Fine Art Gallery in downtown Kingsport, which is an awesome shop for those of you looking for locally crafted handmade gifts this holiday season, or any time for that matter. The rest are in Etsy limbo to be listed very, very soon!
Now to the juicy part.
The collection I've been dreaming about for months.
...(I realize this might not make sense to people who don't design on a regular basis. Dreaming about a collection of clutches for months? Boring! If that's how you feel, skip the long drawn out story, scroll down and look at the pretty pictures.)
This is the perfect time to tell you a little bit about my method of designing. Yeah, I'm a seamstress and a designer and have worked at a fabric shop off and on for about six years now, but first and foremost I'm a fabric lover and collector. Some fabrics I will never in my life sew just because I'm so fascinated by their potential that I'm too scared to cut them up! Those are kind of few and far between. Most of the fabrics I have I collect for the perfect companion or design. Sometimes it takes me months or years to realize the perfect match or to actually find the perfect match for a fabric. Sometimes I'm not even looking for the companion and have a fabric set aside for something entirely different and it will catch my attention out of the corner of my eye and, voila, it's done. This collection originated of one of those situations.
I've had the polka dot for years, because it's an awesome black polka dot printed on a heavy weight cotton, drapery canvas type fabric. And, I'm a sucker for prints on heavy weight cotton drapery canvas type fabrics. Then I found the chevron fabrics.. which are hard to find because they're so stinking popular right now and while I never intentionally make something because it's popular... who doesn't like the chevron print? In five different colors?
Okay, so here are the lovely chevron and black polka dot organizer clutches with funky retro-looking over sized covered buttons that can finally get out of my head. And into your possession!
And my signature, of course.
