Making the Tower Crossbody Bag

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Making the Tower Crossbody Bag

Hi there and a little unexpected post that has slipped in between the upheaval in things here. We had expected our house move to go through any day and I was almost packing boxes and then the chain broke at the other end and everything is suddenly on hold again. It is unsettling and disappointing and infuriating and for a few days I was so fed up, I couldn’t settle to anything. But there is nothing like a little bag making and embroidery to calm things down and in sorting out my stash in the sewing room I had come across the last bit of a beautiful piece of raspberry coloured wool fabric that I had brought back from Stockholm.

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Making an embroidered clutch bag

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Making an embroidered clutch bag

Clutch bags seem impossibly glamorous to a vintage girl who spends most of her days in Jeans, but this one is pretty special. In fact this posting has been marinating in my draft box for a very long time and I am so happy to finally be able to write about it. During these long months of lockdown, ‘making things’ has been so important to me and I know to lots of other people too and it has also been a chance to finish up some things that have for whatever reason been dragging their threads…so to speak. This charming project has been one of them and I really can’t explain why it has taken me so very long to get around to finishing it.

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