Record Bag

For Christmas this year my family decided to do "secrete Santa". A couple months ago we found out who in the family we were to gift. I got my sister's Fiance Rafael who is a wonderful musician. His newest solo work called Las Palabras, just came out on 7" and MP3.

Since he makes the music, I thought I would sew him a hand embroidered record bag!
It's about 14" square, fully lined with bright yellow oil cloth, with a 1 1/2in. adjustable strap. It was super fun to make, which makes me think I will be making more in the coming months.

LPs are definitely back in style, and what better way to celebrate that by carrying them around in a hand embroidered bag!

Santa is a procrastinator

It's definitely Christmas time and I'm still working on my hand-made gifts.. I love to procrastinate! But it's now or never, so I'm locking myself in my sewing room and not budging till everything is just right!

Christmas is always a little stressful but it's definitely one of my favorite times of year... So, a happy Holidays to all and a very happy New Year!

Party Sucess!

The Party Thursday night was a roudy good time. Holiday cheer is here!
Thank you to all my lovely friends who made it. It was wonderful to see everyone.



The Front Junk band supplied the party with the sweet, roudy, stomp your feet music.

Octopus

Octopi are amazing creatures. With no internal or external skeleton they can fit into any space, they change color, and eat crabs and other shellfish. Mmmmm.. Crab...

Here's my newest bag with hand embroidered Octopus. You can see/purchase it this weekend at Fourth and Clay Open Studio.

Hand VS Machine

For three years now my work has been on display and for sale at the Fourth and Clay holiday open studio. Looking back on the previous years my bags have come a long way. The concept has stayed the same; cosmetic bags and wristlets fully lined with oil cloth, hand made and embroidered with painstaking love. What has changed is minimal, but it's the small things that make all the difference. This year I've dove head first into the "hand made", and have started to hand embroider my images onto the bags as opposed to "hand" machine embroidery. The result of the hand embroidery is much more pleasing to me. The image has more texture, and I'm able to use bolder colors that pop off the background fabric. Come by the Forth and Clay studio and check them out. I hope you like the new look as much as I do!

I still have a few machine embroidered bags left over from last year that are for sale at a discounted rate on my Etsy site.

Holiday Open Studios

The Holidays are here, and I've been busy embroidering, pinning, and sewing my new line of bags! Fourth and Clay gallery and studio space is having it's yearly holiday open studio featuring Ceramic works by Rae Dunn, Christa Assad, and Josie Jurczenia, along with hand made jewelry by Circadian Studios, Paper and silk-screened goodies by Linea Carta, and my new line of S-S-Stitch bags!

The studio will be open every weekend from now until Christmas (December 20th) from 11am-5pm. So stop by and get inspired by all the beautiful hand made gifts!

Fourth and Clay
2370 4th st @ Channing way
Berkeley, CA

And we must not forget my favorite part, THE PARTY! Come celebrate craftiness and the holidays Thursday December 10th 7-11pm..