02 September 08
Ella's School Bag
So of course I had to make a bag for my favorite kindergartner. If you’ve heard me talk about The Cutest Little Girl In The World™, then you probably know that I mean Ella, aka Elizabeth, aka the daugher of the coolest woman ever (and her pa ain’t to bad neither).
Since Ella and Isabelle were born days apart, I decided to give them both the same set of fabrics to view to pick what they wanted. I wanted to see how these two Leos would go about their decision-making process. Isabelle apparently regaled her mother with an intense hour-long discussion about the merits of each fabric. Elizabeth came by the Poise.cc Studios for an afternoon and I started pulling fabrics out for her to view. I only got a few fabrics on the cutting table before she said “That one! The pink one! That’s the one I want.”
“Oh,” I said. “Well, if you want pink, let me show you some of the other fabrics that are pink or have pink in them.”
“Nope. I want that one,” she said. And when I tried to push her to consider others, she became indignant, “Cinnamon, I KNOW what I like.”
“Okay,” I said. “We still need to pick out a fabric for the inside then. Let me show you a few. I pulled out one pink fabric with circles on it.
“Yep. That matches. That’s it.”
“Well, wouldn’t you like to have maybe a fabric that has some green in it to match the green dots? Or some white and pink.”
“Cinnamon, this bag has dots on the outside, I want dots on the inside. I want it all pink.”
The purse designer abides the determined client. Tis the rules. I knew that I still need purse strap material. My strap order was on back order (hot pink strapping, to make it all pink) and I knew that wouldn’t do, so I headed off to Vogue Fabrics in Evanston and found this great strapping. Unfortunately they only had enough for one bag, so I won’t be able to make more of this bag until the pink webbing arrives. But I think Ella is totally okay having a one-of-a-kind bag. Totally okay with it.
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