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Just saying...

11/9/2017

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Got to say this Henry Moore 'Heads' Bucket Bag is my all time favourite so far, apparently it flew off the shelf at the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens shop!
Sadly the 'Safety Pins and Treble Clefs' bag is the last one I shall be making this season...until next year.
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Images of Henry Moore textiles reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation.
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Don't count on it...

11/9/2017

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You know what they say - don't count your flamingos before they've flown...? I am trying to make samples to present to Gainsborough's House, but then someone fell in love with this one and I sold it as soon as it was done! Maybe I need to put all my eggs in one basket or something? (puzzled face!)
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Applique on silk woven at Vanner's Silks in Sudbury.
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Lined with dupion silk.
And by the way: the keen ones amongst you might have noticed that I sewed the frame on back to front, so the chain was attached at the front instead of the back! And YES I did painstakingly unpick it and re-sew it the right way round!! Now I know why they call it pins and needles 'cos that's what you get from too much hand sewing.
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    Hello, I'm Ruth Overton. My nickname as a child was 'Ruthie Toots' which is how the name 
    Toots Totes'
    came about!
    I come from a family of artists and artisans and the creative gene has resulted in a desire to make stuff. There's nothing I love more, than to sit at my old treadle  machine, sewing. It was handed down to me, through the family having been bought by my Grandad for Grandma in the 1930's. (See my blogs about the machine here.)
    More recently I have turned my attention to designing and creating bags and 'Toots Totes' began. 
    I'm going to blog about how ideas for bags come about and how things happen in the sewing room, so join me there if you want to, or bypass this to go to the Shop or the gallery, if you prefer - I won't mind!

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