I don’t know how this slipped through the cracks, but consider this a rehash of the Herringbone Entry.
Arguably my most popular pattern to make, tied with basketweave for the variations, and I can’t complain about it.
These were a pre-Sunday all-nighter experiment, one I wasn’t keen on repeating, but one I’ve done… several times since.
Herringbone isn’t an easy pattern, but it is one that people really enjoy, and after hearing “if only it was smaller” enough times, any rational person would take the hint, Make Smaller Herringbones. Thus this triplet set was born!
The coolest part? They all sold at market that same day! What luck on my end, eh?
The first of the trio: The Vertical Herringbone, top to bottom. This would be the first time I attempted this since the one I gave to my coworker, both this and its counterpart were made in neutrals because I repeat, Interior Designers LOVE neutrals and blues, which is why all of these early iterations have some variant of that to their respective themes.
Number two of the triple header is the blue-hued straight herringbone. This is a pattern I would grow to know and love, whether it be the technical first pattern that sold or as I now know, one everyone loves in blue, I am glad to have this as a sort of midpoint to look back on. I made this with pieces from Arts and Scraps in Detroit, with the sides being cloth placemats for dinner setting, I love reuse!
The final of the trio, the Horizontal Neutral Herringbone and the one I took the most pictures of because I was ready for the morning to arrive and needed photo breaks to wake up my limbs (not glorifying overwork, anyone reading this, get up and stretch a bit). This was a fun bag to make partially for the variety and splashes of color here and there. I still hadn’t figured out the importance of the D-Ring, but I did know the textural surprise of the embossed suede bottom of this bag, any chance to make something tactily interesting, take it. This was a long night, but a rewarding one.
