Your bag should be as fantastic as you are! Let us show you how to give a wool bag or pouch an artistic upgrade with applique!
The Perfect Wool Bags & Pouches
The Grab and Go Carry All
This bag is exactly what you need to keep all your projects in one place. Each bag is handmade by Fair Trade artisans and dyed with environmentally-friendly materials. The Grab and Go is finished off with sturdy and comfortable genuine leather handles, making it a beautiful and ethical choice. Being 100% wool, it's naturally water and dirt repellent. The spacious design is fully lined with four internal pockets and a magnetic snap closure, making it the perfect companion for all your projects.
Best of all - your Lap App fits seamlessly in this Carry All, with space to spare for your projects, notions, and threads!
Show off your unique style by choosing from one of our six harmonizing 2-tone colorways.
The 2-Tone Medium Organizer
This popular pouch can function as a general organizer, day make-up bag, purse/bag organizer, or pencil/pen/art case. It's also fabulous for organizing chargers/cords/USB's etc, travel/passport case, and so much more. It features a contemporary 2-tone color combo with a felt ball zipper pull.
Applique Away!
Whether you're a meticulous planner or a dive-right-in improviser, this project is a fun and easy way to make a bag or pouch uniquely your own.
Make it Pretty with a Plan
When you purchase a Grab and Go Carry All or a 2-Tone Medium Organizer, we will include a FREE Sue Spargo template of shapes featuring flowers, leaves, birds, and more! You can use this template to cut out wool shapes for applique. Coordinate colors and plan out your design to make your bag or pouch truly special!
In the above examples of modified 2-Tone Organizers, we appliqued wool shapes on the exterior and boxed the corners! What an amazing transformation!
Cut out shapes from our Hand Dyed Wool Paint Chips! They're just perfect for this project!
After pinning your shapes in place, whipstitch the edges with a #24 Chenille needle and Ellana wool thread. Our Hand Dyed Wool and Ellana wool thread are dyed to match one another in over 60 colors. This allows for virtually invisible stitches.
TIP: When you begin to applique a shape, be sure to hide your knot behind the applique. When whipstitching the edges of each shape, take the needle through the top layer of the exterior wool so that your stitches do not show on the interior of the bag.
Box the Corners
Adding boxed corners will allow your wool pouch to sit upright. Simply flip the pouch inside out and flatten the pouch into a diamond shape with the seam through the middle. Clip the pouch and chalk a horizontal line about an inch away from both corners. Sew on the line at each corner. For extra security, you can sew one more line a quarter inch closer to the corner and then cut off the corner. Flip your bag right side out, and voila! You have boxed corners on your adorable pouch!
Improv Applique
We collected all of our wool and velvet shapes and small stitched pieces that never found a home. After cutting out these little lovelies, we began appliqueing them to the exterior of the Grab and Go Carry All in a playful, unplanned manner, similar to doodling. Go with the flow and let your imagination wander as you beautify your bag!
What a great project to add to over time! Whenever you're out and about and have some downtime, you can simply reach in your bag for supplies and carry on stitching.
So fun, so unique, and totally giving off vintage luggage vibes! The applique patches are reminiscent of stickers collected on world travels; each has a story of its own.
The adorable addition of embroidered stickers and bits of embroidered ribbon make this bag extra unique! Simply tack the embroidered stickers and ribbon down using a Tulip #6 Silk needle with Efina cotton thread.
Beads make another fabulous embellishment. We used them in the center of the tiny wool flowers.
We know you'll love this project as much as we do! Treat yourself and a friend who loves to stitch with a bag or pouch today, and carry your creativity with you everywhere you go!