Oh, tiny cowgirl, refusing to actually participate in the preschool Halloween parade for which we made a special trip in the middle of our hectic day. Probably you're saving your energy for heading out to the range.
With your cowgirl trick or treat bag. (Simple Tote! Such a surprise to see you!)
Around these parts, there can be no cowgirl bag without an accompanying cowboy satchel. (There's a whole accompanying cowboy costume, too, but we have no good blog pictures of it (as I lamented last night, to much not-entirely-disguised eyerolling from my husband)). I am going to have to talk him into a reenactment.
Anyway, the bag is a messenger-style adaptation of Simple Tote, though I guess once you make the whole thing a little bit bigger, add a strip to make a boxy bottom, a flap to go over the top, & a long strap to go cross-body over the shoulder, it's less an adaptation than an entirely different bag, hm? I owe every little bit of my understanding of how to line a bag to Simple Tote, though. It's a Simple Tote in spirit! Also, another important similarity is that my Simple Tote Curse applies to this bag, too (probably because I looked at the ST pattern while touching the fabric I'd be using, thus creating evil psychic connection), resulting in me completely forgetting any type of interfacing. So, you know, pardon the flop.
When I went to look for the bag this morning to take a picture, I discovered that had he already loaded it up with Very Important Things. Way to make your mom proud, kid.
Today: stack of crowns.
I hope you're not really cursed, although I do know what you mean, how can it go so right one day and so wrong the next?!!
I love your bags, and cushions with the patchwork - that's not big in the UK, but I want to give it a whirl. Can you recommend any good beginners books? (This isn't a skill passed down from generation to generation - which I imagine (probably wrongly) is the case in the USA!!!)
Posted by: claire | November 02, 2007 at 02:26 AM
Love the treat bags and so great they can use them year round. Her costume looked great and I can't wait to see his.
Posted by: kirsten | November 02, 2007 at 08:34 AM
she looks so cute. Halloween is such an emotional rollercoaster over here, all combined with too much sugar and friends you can't quite recognize. It was okay while it lasted, but glad its over. I love the simple tote, and laugh at how it really never is totally *simple* around here either : ).
Your interview was great! I'm impressed!
Posted by: Blair | November 02, 2007 at 07:02 PM