My bags - at home and abroad

This is the current wall of fame of the scrap bags, which shows that I have not only been busy but also managed to get some of my scrap piles smaller. Hip-hooray!

I received a mail this morning from a happy customer. I made her a Moomins bag earlier this month and here it is now, wow! Please go and check her beautiful blog with some wonderful things and stories, and pictures of her&her friend´s fantastic shop. How I wish I could visit you there, Mieke!

Summer is finally here, as I mentioned earlier, and roses at my yard are opening. They smell wonderful so I leave you with that tonight...

And they keep coming...

...and some more tomorrow. This pretty duo jumped into my shop already.

Summer greetings (finally!)!

From a scrap to a bag

I have done some serious cleaning and sorting on my fabric stash. It (the stash and whole process, actually) was bigger than I have wanted to admit, and I realized that I need to get rid of some.

I thought it would be easier to start the binning with the smallest scraps but heavens! how difficult it was. I just kept making nice piles with reds, blues, whites when it hit me: A scrap bag! I´ll use all (read: some) of these to make bags! Alone they´re too little but together... Just perfect.

Now I have piles of whites & blues, yellows & oranges, browns & whites waiting to be sewn. Sigh. How did I fool myself this bad again?

Happy Sunday!

A bag begins

I took some photos from the beginning of the idea for a bag all the way to through the process. I chose moss green wool this time and decorated it with beautiful flowers.

I get my inspiration from the books, nature, magazines - and the finished product sometimes resembles the ideas, most of the time not. Somehow it seems that the flowers are taking over the little bees and birdies but we´ll see.

Soon I am off to funfair with my fantastic goddaughters and that should be not only great fun but also give me some inspiration too. I cannot (will not, don´t want to) take any rides at the gadgets but I´ll be enjoying the happy faces. And some sun, finally!

Enjoy your week!

Rainy days

The Finnish summer gives its best: rain, cold, stormy weather with yet some more rain. Did I mention rain? I was planning to sew sky blue summery bags and pouches this week and line them with flowers and sunny yellow cottons. Yeah right. I have been sewing some watery blue bags instead. They´re pretty cute too, don´t you think?

Now I am off to chase all the garden furniture gone with the wind around our back yard (again) and shop some BBQ delicacies. To cook indoors, naturally.

Have a great weekend!

Summer brings the birdies too

It´s the first day of my holidays and it´s been wonderful so far. I spent the morning (and most of the day, too) with my wonderful sister and the world´s most adorable nephew. Sun shined and birds were singing. Absolute bliss.

The birds inspired me to decorate a cute felted bag I knitted last weekend. The bag is adorable (even if I say so myself) and went to the shop. I assume there are more birdies awaiting - could someone knit me more bags, please?