This segment happens to be the culmination of a few weeks of dedicated work on Sundays, making these truly live up to the term “Market-Made”. Each week was dedicated to a part of the process, from the sewing of straps to the addition of buttonholes, selection of corresponding buttons, and embroidering of labels, I also spent a market day sewing together even the pockets and panels of this batch of small bag shells. Incredible that I made it through the first several and invigorated with yet another fabric donation from Plymouth, MI, I had more than enough unique material to make something wonderful.

These are another evolution of the small bag concept and one that I am endlessly surprised it took me this long to finalize. Prior to this, only the large bags had small handles as an automatic addition (with a few mediums given them upon request), but this round I decided that the small bags deserved both those carriers and a second side flap pocket.

This is the first 6 bags of that version, but as I type this I am still prepping yet more bricks to be made into bags, because part of the customization process is having the ready-prepped material for whatever color and pattern a client might request, which is easier said than done, but nothing a dedicated rotary-cutting day or two can’t solve.