This book has a whole range of techniques for making 30 beautiful bags!

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Product Description

Whip up a beautiful bag or pretty purse—now it’s easy to customize these hot fashion accessories to your personal style! A range of techniques make it a snap to go from sewing room to shoulder.

· Use a variety of fun handles and closures to make 30 traditional to trendy projects

· Choose from quilted and embellished bags—create quick originals with photo transfers and ready-to-decorate bags

· Get inspired to customize purses by substituting different sizes, straps, and pockets

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #529142 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri

Amy Barickman is the creative mind behind the successful design company Indygo Junction and the developer of The Vintage Workshop® Click-n-Craft® system.

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Customer Reviews

Great inspiration, lacking in pattern simlicity
I like the book, love the ideas and the inspiration. The variety is great with zippers and open tops and metal hex closures. A great way to expand your bag making! The patterns do not come full size or with dimensions to fudge them to the right size. Instead, you are given a pattern shape and instructed to "Enlarge 111%" or "Enlarge 150%." Kind of kills the spur of the moment creativity, unless you have a large copier in your house or pre-copy all the patterns ahead of time.

good basic info and patterns to copy
Good basic shapes and the introduction offers clear instructions to insert pockets and how to put together linings. Designs include multiple opening styles, including how to put together a bag with a hex opening (snaps together in a spring loaded fashion) which was my reason for purchase. Patterns are on pages of the book with info on how much to enlarge each sheet on a copy machine to achieve the size of bag illustrated. Most of the bag designs are simple rectangles of different sizes.

Nice Assortment
I think this book is well done. It would be improved by adding an inch-square grid to the patterns to make manual enlargement easier, but I've had good luck with my scanner and printer. As for "too too", the point of making your own handbags is to come up with something unique to you and your personality. All of these bags can be customized to express your personality.