I've been thinking about something new in my handbag line. I hand-quilt most of my fabrics which can take a fair amount of time. It gives you great choices, but I like to think I can make more than 0.10 / hour (I sometimes question whether I'm much above that!). I've been trying to figure out how to lower the cost of my handbag and keep quality high. Then opportunity knocked. A friend of a friend had some left-over seating and upholstry fabric. This is usually quite expensive. It was nice fabric, but something I had not worked with before. Thus I rescued some fabric which was on its way to the local landfill! This type of bag is a diversion
from my other bags, so I wanted to call them something else. Then the "green" bag hit me. I've seen "green" be used in quite a few places on Etsy. It really made sense to call this line of bags green. There are a fair number of RV manufacturers around here, and their left-over fabrics could become someone else's bag. These are generally limited fabrics, so when they are gone they really are gone. I have not put this in the shop yet because I'm trying this demo model out first. I want to make sure the strap is strong and durable. So far so good, but I may make a few modifications. The pictures I've posted show the zipper, the fabric, and my new"green" tag. I think this will work out, at least it is worth a shot. It has been strange in that the local sales have been good and very quilted handbag-centric. The Etsy sales have had far fewer bags and more in the lower-cost items I've tried producing. I think part of this is due to the relativity low number of on-line sales. I think that is enough for tonight. Until the next blog .... Happy Sewing!
I've been thinking about something new in my handbag line. I hand-quilt most of my fabrics which can take a fair amount of time. It gives you great choices, but I like to think I can make more than 0.10 / hour (I sometimes question whether I'm much above that!). I've been trying to figure out how to lower the cost of my handbag and keep quality high. Then opportunity knocked. A friend of a friend had some left-over seating and upholstry fabric. This is usually quite expensive. It was nice fabric, but something I had not worked with before. Thus I rescued some fabric which was on its way to the local landfill! This type of bag is a diversion 
from my other bags, so I wanted to call them something else. Then the "green" bag hit me. I've seen "green" be used in quite a few places on Etsy. It really made sense to call this line of bags green. There are a fair number of RV manufacturers around here, and their left-over fabrics could become someone else's bag. These are generally limited fabrics, so when they are gone they really are gone. I have not put this in the shop yet because I'm trying this demo model out first. I want to make sure the strap is strong and durable. So far so good, but I may make a few modifications. The pictures I've posted show the zipper, the fabric, and my new"green" tag. I think this will work out, at least it is worth a shot. It has been strange in that the local sales have been good and very quilted handbag-centric. The Etsy sales have had far fewer bags and more in the lower-cost items I've tried producing. I think part of this is due to the relativity low number of on-line sales. I think that is enough for tonight. Until the next blog .... Happy Sewing! 
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