Other knick-knacks

HSH has been busy making commissioned pieces, so we haven't had time to design and make new bags, or to go fabric-shopping (how will the economy cope without our spending?).  But since chinese new year is around the corner, we decided to join in the fray and make something for the season.

What's this, you ask,  Let me show you what we did with it.

Don't you think that it's useful in holding new year goodies?  I don't know about you but I don't like the typical new year candies.  Nothing beats my all-time favourite "belly-button biscuits".  I like to eat the colourful icing candy on top 1st and my favorite is the pink coloured ones.

Don't worry if you don't have the same dish as me.  We've padded the fabric container sufficiently that you can still use it without a dish and you can even mould it to whatever depth you desire, like so...

And like all things we make, this dish is of course, reversible.

The dish can also be used to hold your other knick-knacks.  I think it will be useful to hold all those paper clips in the office.  I do so hate to find paper clips scattered on my desk.


Not to be left out, the Felt Team has also been making some commissioned pieces of their own.

These personalised handphone pouches made wonderful gifts.  Don't you think the colours are so sweet?  I love the hand-embroidery of the names - you can't get that outside.

We Love Russian Dolls!

A couple of posts ago, we featured some of the commissioned bags we made.  Remember this?

 

Well, the response to these bags was most enthusiastic and people started asking for the bags.  Now, you must remember that the bags were commissioned pieces, which meant that the fabric was supplied by the customer.  But this kind customer was kind enough to share with us the supplier of the fabric.  And so, HSH climbed mountains and crossed seas to import these rather expensive fabric for you.

  

So, now we can show you these...

And we didn't just stop at making the bags.  We also made these...

Don't you think these bag tags are the cutest?  We're going to make more from each and every doll on the fabric.  And wait, we've got more of such fabric in different colours.  Let's see what else we can make with them.  Oooh!  This is so exciting and fun!

Another customer also passed us Russian Doll fabric.  But this time it is very different.  We made a Petit Bucket bag with her fabric.  We certainly hope she likes it!

Ya, I agree, it looks entirely different from the Petit Bucket bags you've seen so far.  This is certainly more hip and therefore suited for the young at heart.  I think it would look great with jeans.  Anyway, let's have a look at the Russian dolls on this fabric.

Ain't they cute?  Do you think they will start yet another fabric trend?

Anyway, since there's so much interest in the Russian dolls, I decided to do a little research (by that, I mean I just googled lah) and was disappointed that there was no romantic story behind these dolls.  Found out that they were just some dolls which the Russians copied from the Japanese, and the dolla won some toy contest.  An interesting fact is that the dolls can be of either gender and the smallest one is usually a baby. 

The Russian doll bags (which fits a laptop nicely) retail at S$32 and the bag tags at S$5.