Monday, February 21, 2011

Messenger Bag (continued with pictures)

A messenger bag, though not the one Toya was referring to in the last post. This is our cousin, Erica, modeling her new accessory. The bag turned out really nicely, actually. The lining inside (not pictured, unfortunately) is a totally neat embellishment. And if you look really closely, you'll see that Toya used a multitude of colors and that the the bag is textured. There's also a snap for utility purposes.

And finally, she didn't use a pattern. She did it all from scratch.


Thursday, February 17, 2011

Messenger Bag

Many, many months ago, I was asked to make a crochet messenger bag and I didn't get started on it until either late January/early February. It's still not completely finished...all of the crochet aspects are completed but I have some sewing to do. I could actually sew the liner on by hand, but I don't want to do that. Call me lazy. I don't even like sewing the labels on so this is why our new labels are iron on. For the record, I also hate adding fringe, but since the masses like them, I have to appease our audience.

 -->On a side note; This woman was coming down the stairs, tripped a little, made this amazing "oh!' face, and then I looked away. LOL.

I am, I suppose, taking a scarf hiatus so I just started working on a new messenger bag. I absolutely love the colors. The first messenger bag and the subsequent one was made/is being made with scrap yarn from previous projects. Quite bad-ass, if I may say(had to get LaTasha's permission to say bad-ass; don't want to offend). I told LaTasha, I just might keep this messenger bag, b/c it's going to be the cutest thing. After I sent her pictures of the beginning of it she said, " fugly" and then after a second picture of just the colors being used, she said, " fuglier".

Last weekend, I gave my cousin a scarf because when I had gone out with my Mom and my Grandmother to go shopping on Sunday, we didn't return with anything for her and she whined for a while, so to shut her up, I asked if she wanted a scarf and she quickly quieted down. She's 22, by the way.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Prices

So, we finally came up with some prices and let me tell you it was hard because we were trying to watch The Town at the same time. Great movie, by the way.

Tash is going to post the prices at some point. She created some new labels for us to use on our creations that are representative of the two of us. This should be really interesting.

I wonder...most people who want something made are friends, and if most of our customers are our friends, do we give a discount for them? Like, for real? I give most of the things I make away for free so I wasn't trying to make money off of crocheting, but it's getting really good to me, so that's why I ask.

Once we get the prices up here, I will start directing people to it, like, these are the prices so do you still want it or not? LOL.