Aragon Bag for Purse Palooza
You can read all about Purse Palooza 2013 at the end of this post. If
you’d like to enter your bag in the contest, you can win some fab
prizes!
A little back story on this awesome bag. Several months ago, Sara asked if I wanted to be a part of Purse Palooza. Ummm, yes! I
told her I’d love to sew a diaper bag, and I asked if she knew of a good pattern I
could use.
Sara told me that she’d love to write a diaper bag pattern for me, and
she said she could customize it to include some things that I liked! Is this girl generous, or what?
I
accepted Sara’s offer and
immediately stopped what I was doing to look at every diaper bag on the
Internet. Knowing very little about babies, I tried to figure out what
features I’d find most helpful and necessary in a diaper bag, and then
sent her a few ideas of things I liked. 🙂
Of course, my favorites are the bunchy elastic ones.
Did I mess up a couple times while sewing this bag? I sure did! But, it is an advanced bag pattern, and I’m still pretty darn proud of myself for finishing it in less than 24 hours. I used Anna
Maria Horner Field Study for the exterior fabric and Amy Butler Cameo
for the purse straps and interior fabric.
1. Every weekday from September 30th – October 25th, there are 2 amazing guest bloggers scheduled to
share with you a purse sewing pattern review. None of the purses reviewed from the event last year are being reviewed again, so these will be fresh sewing pattern reviews! The review will contain
detailed information about what I thought about the sewing pattern,
modifications I made, what kind of interfacing I used, and more!
Get inspired!
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| Aeroplane Bags |
2. Even more exciting…THERE WILL BE A GIVEAWAY EVERY WEEKDAY DURING THE EVENT! That’s right, 20 GIVEAWAYS!
3. At the end of the event, you will get a chance to show me your purse in order to win some amazing prizes! Of course, international entries are welcome too!
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| Dot Dot Dash Bag |
September 30 – Sara – Sew Sweetness (Serendipity Studio – Media Frenzy Camera Bag)
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| Lapin Noir Bag |
1. Check out all the purse pattern reviews throughout the month and get inspired to sew up a purse of your own!
2. Link up your completed purse on the Purse Palooza 2013 page BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 30th AND NOVEMBER 11th. Your
purse must be created and photographed between those dates; purses made
prior to September 30, 2013 will be disqualified. The purse may be of your
own design, or made from a sewing pattern. You can link from Flickr, your blog post, or wherever else you host your photos.
3. There is no limit to how many purses you may enter, as long as they were made between September 30th and November 11th. Only one link-up per purse please.
*Note: Besides bags and purses, for this event also acceptable are clutches, backpacks, wallets, etc.
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| Greenbacks Wallet Trio |
1st prize – 4th prize will receive an AWESOME prize pack courtesy of Pat Bravo, genius fabric designer extraordinaire! The prize packs will each include 3 Pat Bravo sewing patterns (La Boheme Skirt, Barcelona Bag, and Capri Bag), a pack of Pat Bravo Aurifil Threads (thread pack may vary, as there are 3 different packs), and 10 Pat Bravo fat quarters (fat quarters may vary).
In addition, the 1st prize – 4th prize winners will also receive a copy of Sara Lawson’s new book, Big-City Bags!! The book releases November 5th, and you can pre-order your book now!
Retail value of each prize pack: $127.
There will also be one randomly-drawn winner out of all purses entered, and this winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to my publisher, Martingale (as well as a copy of Big-City Bags!).
Retail value of prize pack: $77.
Purse Palooza will be judged this year by Kay Whitt of Serendipity Studio. Kay writes the most stylish and fun-to-sew clothing patterns and bag patterns out there.
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