Category: Bag Making

  • Be a Lányos Handmade Pattern Tester!

    Be a Lányos Handmade Pattern Tester!

    The time has come and my Gemma© Bag Pattern is ready to be tested. Would you like to be involved? I would LOVE some real feedback! Pattern Testers will receive a DRAFT copy of the Gemma© Bag PDF Pattern, sew it up, and let me know how I did. Did the pattern make sense? Is…

  • Inspiration.

    Inspiration.

    Wow!  By my standards it has been a while since I posted! I was enjoying myself with visitors all last weekend and into the beginning of the week … my sisters … so I don’t know if they count as formal guests, or not! 😂  Two out of three of them joined me in doing…

  • Lányos Handmade and a FREE pattern!

    Lányos Handmade and a FREE pattern!

    What’s that? Well this is going to be a short post introducing you to my new Shop, Lányos Handmade! I have opened a fledging shop where I am selling my unique PDF sewing patterns – if you like to sew, keep in touch! In the meantime, I’ll be sewing my RTW wardrobe, entering Sewing Challenges,…

  • Sewing with Cork Fabric!

    Sewing with Cork Fabric!

    I’ve been busy making another bag for my friend. I call it The Gemma© Bag! My friend told me what style of bag she liked and very nicely let me go with the flow! She had her choice of Cork Fabrics and chose these two beauties. When it comes to choosing Cork Fabric, I learned…

  • Remember this?

    Remember this?

    Do you remember my embroidered denim patch given to me by a sewing friend? I have been saving it for so long waiting for a special project. Well I’ve decided what that special project is going to be – this change/card purse for myself. I think I will call it my Coffee© purse … because…

  • Another Rosie© Bag and the Circle Craft Christmas Market

    Another Rosie© Bag and the Circle Craft Christmas Market

    The holidays are fast approaching and along with organizing and sewing for Designin’ December, I have been asked and have decided to make a few Rosie© Bags as gifts.  I have a few cut out and I’ll be slipping the finished Bags on here as they get done, so you can have a look at them…

  • What do you think?

    What do you think?

    Last week I showed you my Rosie© bag … I’m going to call it “Portrait style”.  This week I’m going to show you my Rosie© bag “Landscape style”.  But I have a simple question … Do you prefer your cross body bags long and skinny (Portrait style) or do you prefer your cross body bags…

  • The Rosie© bag

    The Rosie© bag

    I’ve always got my eye out for “the perfect bag”.  Even when I bought RTW I stuck to the same couple of perfectly functional bags – wrapped in different materials and styles to change things up. Now that I am making my own, I am attempting to find the perfect bags for myself.  I am…