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:: March 20, 2005 Bags of Bags
I think I've got the basics of bag construction down, but my projects have been pretty plain so far. It's time to move up to embellishment, but I've got an imagination impairment. Fortunately, there is help. Did you know that there are not one but two weblogs dedicated solely to purses? There is The Bag Blog and Purseuing. Likewise, there are two books on handbags (with similar names) that look intriguing: Hip Handbags : Creating & Embellishing 40 Great-Looking Bags by Valerie Schrader, which I thumbed through in a bookstore recently and would very much like to have. It provides a bunch of basic shapes for bags and goes though their construction, then gives detailed instructions on how to embellish/modify the basic pattern to achieve very different looks. And there's The Hip Handbag Book: 20 Easy to Make Totes, Purses and Bags by Sherri Haab, which I know nothing about but looks similar. While I'm on the bag subject, I wanted to give a shout-out to the mesh Mexican Shopping Bag. I have a few of these that I got in Mexico with local tourist attractions printed on them. They can be found in many an import shop in the U.S. for inflated prices, but not so inflated that they're not worth it.
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