I finished a project! Yahoo!!! (Fridge bag)

I posted a photo of the beginnings of this bag a couple entries ago.  I copied the pattern from a plastic grocery bag.

It folds quite flat and small, but holds a lot.

This fabric had a selvedge of steel!  Almost broke my needle!  At least it made a pretty cool bottom hem of the bag.

My favorite part, perhaps: the tops of the handles are bound with bias tape on both sides, then folded over and bar-tacked together for strength and style.

Looks kinda like your standard plastic grocery store bag.  Not the MOST attractive thing ever, but it was a fun experiment.

Another experiment:

Daniel's not sure if he wants to eat my creepy cookie that I made specially for him.  The roommates watch in tense anticipation.  (It's just a melted candy cane!!!)

Daniel and I made some silkscreens last week at the Vera Project, of the Mathematician/Philosopher Bertrand Russell.  He is a cool dude!  To get a quick idea of who he is, you should read this short article on an idea he is perhaps most known for: "Russell's Teapot."

Anyway, I was having some masking difficulties as well as alignment difficulties... so... yes, I KNOW it's way off toward my right side.  C'est la vie.

Too much computering for such a lovely day.

A common day in the factory

No tail yet...  but too ADHD to finish before moving on to another project:

This is in the process of becoming a "fridge bag," for use in our current system of roommate food segregation.  I've been using a plastic bag with a piece of masking tape with "Mad" written on it in sharpie, but this will be much more aesthetically pleasing, until, of course, it becomes irrevocably soiled with grease and sticky mystery substance.

Also... appliqueing wool felt is like CRACK!!! Or, it is what I imagine the bliss of a crack high to feel like, since I have never actually tried it.

A bag is born!

I finished making this dinosaur tote bag today!

I found the fabric with these dinosaurs on it at Goodwill, so made a bag using the brontosaurus as an applique patch.  Look at its stupid face!  I love it!!!

Another awesome thing is the strap: I sewed so many parallel lines on it to lend it some rigidity-- and a green highlight stripe on the inside!

Available for sale on ETSY!!!

Also, today I found these cute silkscreened dishtowels,

...but what I want to know is: How do people get to the point where they can sell stuff like that for that price?!?!?  It's reasonable to ask that much for your efforts if you're trying to make a living as an artist, but unless you have some sort of reputation in the art world, no one is going to pay $20 for your adorable dishtowel.  I would totally make dishtowels if I could get $20 a pop for them!

P E L O T O N

I think the word "Peloton" is really cool, partially because I like ridiculously specific words, and partially because I like the specific meaning of this specific word:
"the main clump of bicyclists in a bicycle race"

Anyway, sometimes a word is just pleasing: aesthetically, aurally, etymologically, etc.

So, I cut out the letters:

It was also kind of inspired by this bag I've had since childhood:

So maybe that's what I'll do with the letters.  Whenever I don't know what to do with an idea, I think to my self: "Can it be made into a bag?"

The answer, invariably, is "Yes."

If I finish this it's probably going up on Etsy, so keep your eyes out if you like words representing clumps of bicyclists appliquéd onto bags!