September blues

As September is the start of the busy stock building season for me its easy to get stuck in a repetitive rut as I spend large stretches of time doing the same thing (block printing, sewing, heat setting, cutting measuring, the list goes on) in regular cycles.

I decided one morning to stretch my wings and instead of the scheduled sewing slot I had lined up, to try and make a mini  carry all tote.

I had a batch of linen washed and ready to go. I even trialed a rough template for the shape bag I had in mind. It didnt work though so I decided to tweak my existing tote template.

I picked three tjaps with strong patterns to print the linen with and mixed up a soft oyster grey ink and a deep olive green for the other patterns.

I wont bore you with the inbetween bits Ive covered in previous posts about the process of printing and sewing the fabric up - best to skip to the end and show you one I finished....