Hip Handbags: Creating and Embellishing 40 Great-looking Bags by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader
Crafters will love making these totally chic bags! This title features 25 simple projects for creating bags from scratch, including flat folding purse. It includes a further 15 projects for embellishing shop-bought bags. Now it's easier than ever to make your bags totally chic! This work features forty projects that offer a wide variety of fabulous choices featuring great fabrics and design options, including novelty threads, raffia ribbon, straps made of jewelled necklaces and bracelets, embroidery and more. In it, crafters will find 25 simple sewing projects, all originating from seven basic patterns, ranging from a flat folding purse to a pocketbook made from iridescent ruched silk. It features another 15 designs that use plain shop-bought bags as a canvas for creative embellishments, such as transforming a simple black clutch with elegant silk flowers.