Category Archives: Bags

Wrist Bag for Crafting

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Noile

It looks like a golden trash bag (!) because I can´t resist trompe d’oeil, and I find this fabric endlessly amusing. Photo of a small cotton bag hanging on a door. The fabric is in golds and browns and looks … Continue reading →

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A Pocket for a Manufactured Bag

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Noile

Recently, I needed a much larger waistpack for a different kind of trip. I found this one at REI, which met the brief, except for one small problem. Photo of an REI Trail 5 Waistpack, courtesy REI. The pack is … Continue reading →

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A Few More Changes to the Euro Flight Bag

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Noile

It should come as no surprise that I wasn´t able to leave my Rick Steves Euro Flight Bag alone after its original modification. Image of a Rick Steves Euro Flight bag. The black, squashable, bag is lying flat. The bag … Continue reading →

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A Simple Bag Mod

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Noile

Bags hold endless fascination for me. Are there ever enough? Is any given one the ´right´ bag? Perhaps tragically, the answers for me are 1) No and 2) There´s always a new choice for a new ´right´purpose. Image of a … Continue reading →

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Foldover Bag

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Noile

This bag was a real disappointment when I first made it, and I put it aside while I decided what to do about the failure. Would I try to fix it? Cannibalize it for parts? Use it anyway and hate … Continue reading →

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A Second Haralson

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Noile

This Haralson is rough-and-ready compared to my first one, of an almost-elegant tapestry. It´s made from a fairly heavy weight canvas — which probably isn´t really a good choice for such a small bag. Turning it right-side-out was interesting, and … Continue reading →

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Flat Pack in Chocolate

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Noile

Smaller, fidgety, fiber arts tools need their own safe place, especially if one is inclined to haul them around. On the spur of the moment, I pulled out the last of my favorite chocolate quilting fabric, and made a little … Continue reading →

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Cat Backpack

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Noile

So a really talented artist in Japan has made a bunch of incredible cat backpacks. Her name is Pico Miho, also known as nekoseisaku pico, and you can see her phenomenal work here, on Bored Panda. Her cats are handcrafted, … Continue reading →

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Waxed Canvas Totes

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Noile

Mr. Noile had a favorite waxed canvas coat for a long time, and I bought a more rarefied waxed canvas coat myself a few years ago. I’d never sewn with the fabric, though, so making these bags was a new … Continue reading →

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Taylor Tailor Canvas Wine Tote

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Noile

This was a quick little fun project: a tiny tote bag for . . . just about anything. I whipped it up in a lightweight, canvas-like fabric that looks like a basketweave.

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