A handy way to carry your glasses

Beside making bags, I had been working on this little item.
This has been one of my best sellers since I started cartonnage 4~5 years ago.


I call it the "Tear Drop" since it has a shape of tear drop when you look at it from the bottom.
This is a spectacle stand which you can also carry around in your bag!


There is a cotton batting inside to protect the glasses from damage, and since I have put the batting at the bottom as well, that you can throw your glasses in casually and not worry about it getting damaged.



It has a snap button on the flap lid so you can run around in the city withoug worrying about your glasses jumping out of the container.

You fasten this mini leather handle on to the D ring of the Tear Drop, and put it around the handle of your bag. Or you can even put it on your belt if you don't carry a bag.

You can carry it outside like this, or


Carry it inside like this.

The body of this Tear Drop is shaped so that it can be flexible inside the bag, but won't get squashed completely as it is shaped firmly at the bottom.

I have made 5 of them, and 2 are sold as an order.
I have put other 3 onto the Yahoo Japan Auction.

Now, here are the new bags I made recently.

It's a casula bag made with dark brown linen cotton fabric.

One is with an antique feedsack cotton patchworked at the front and at the back.

It has a 16cm zipper pocket at the back, and also has a removable zipper pouch inside.

The second one is very similar, but the patchwork is of the Liberty.

The Liberty patchworked bag -

I had been too lazy to update this blog, again...
But, this is for my own benefit to continue write blog entries, so I like to start writing on this blog again, hopefully, more frequently.

This is the latest sewing box I have made.
The fabric I used for the bottom of the box is Lucien.
It was bought for me by my mum when she was travelling in Europe.
The cross stitch is done, again, on the European linen.


This is the recent bag I have made, and it's in Auction now.
This gorgeous patchwork is of the Liberty, of course, and I have matched the cross stitched linen in the middle. The other side has the same patchwork and the cross stitch in pink.
This bag has a zipper main room in the middle, and magnet fastned pockets on both sides.
There are small pockets inside these side pockets.
I have designed it so the contents of the bag is always organised.


This is the basket shaped toto bag which I have made with hand quilting.
I have used quite a thick batting for this, but wasn't thick enough.
So my mum has given me the quilt batting she bought long time ago, and had never used it.
It is much more thicker, and I tried to find it in Spotlight, but couldn't find the same one.
I hope I can find it somewhere by the time I use up the ones I have now.
But in the mean time, I have used this new batting on the bag below.


The patchwork is all Liberty cotton, and the big floral print cotton is the interior cotton I found on Sale in the Spotlight. The print is quite beautiful and unique with a large lilly in pastel colours.
I have used the vinyl fake leather (brown) on the bottom and on the handle to give it a nice contrast in colour.
The bag is on Auction now.

updates

It's been long time since I last updated the blog.
I have made few items since then, and surprisingly,things are going really well with my Yahoo auction!
Also my blog ranking (not this one, but the Japanese one)has gone into the top page!! Yippee!!
May be that's why the price of my work has jumped up significantly.
Here are the pictures of those recent works.

more sewing boxes and a bag

I have made this sewing box, and


this sewing box together last week.


And this is the new bag I made after I finished the sewing boxes.
I am now waiting for accessories to put into the sewing box, so
I won't be makin them for a while.


This bag I made with using antique feed sack cotton,
and patchworked a small cross stitch of a bird.


The back side has a zipper pocket with a stamp of a dove.
The size is W33cm - 42cm, H 25cm, D 16cm, and so
is quite big. But you can make it smaller by fastening the button
on each side of the bag.

sewing box request

I received a request for more sewing boxes, so I have started making them yesterday.
I have used the framing technique for this one as I always wanted to try it.
Normaly you frame an embroidered work, but I will do that for the next one.
The plain green fabric is the linen fabric, and it gives a natural feel of retro touch.


This is the inside of the box.
I will be working on bits and pieces tonight, so hopefuly I can put it out for auction tomorrow.

The bag with Laura Ashley fabrics.

This is the big size shoulder bag made with 2 types of the Laura Ashley fabrics.
Size: H 30cm / W38 - 35cm / D 12cm


One big front pocket with the lid is fastened by magnetic hock.


The back side has one zipper fastner. Zipper size is 20cm.


There are this side pockets on both sides, and it has a snap button so you can adjust its width.
If you carry a big water bottle like this, open the snap button, if you are not carrying anything, flatten it by snapping the button back on.


The handle is adjustable in length, so you can wear it short on your shoulder, or long.
It is on Yahoo Japan auction from today for 4 days.

Alice and the cat bag

This is the recent bag I have made.
It's my first attempt to do patchwork and quilting.
Instead of a pattern quilting, I used the normal embroidery thread and sewn a face of the cat and some leaf patterns on the patchwork.



I have also appliqued the stamped fabrics and a smily face of the cat.


I have quilted a clock for the back, and a different stamp of Alice is sewn in the centre.