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.