Hi Riley Blake friends! It’s Karen from Creamcraft Goods. I’m so excited to share my latest project creating with this adorable new fabric line – Little Women by Jill Howarth! Jill’s take on classic stories is always unique, sweet, and just plain cute! She sweetly illustrates the main characters and scenery to perfection, while adding her own creative spin.
For this project, I wanted to create a something that complemented her story, so what better way than in books! This is my take on a book bag, making it into a Book Bag Purse. I created a book style purse using main character prints and complemented it with Jill’s beautiful floral, pattern, and notion prints. I added leather elements and metal hardware for the handle and it includes a detachable bag strap. I also made a pretty, useful Book Cover, which surprise, is a free tutorial over on my blog! I love making book covers for special books I collect or it even makes a beautiful gift to give to one who loves collecting or reading books too. You can find the Book Cover tutorial here:
Here’s the Book Bag Purse I made:
I used the the lovely panel in this collection and fussy cut an image for the book bag cover. You can do so many things with a panel – create a quilt or cut it up to make more projects.
I used leather and metal hardware for the handle and bag strap. I added a zipper to the top of the bag to hold everything together.
It’s hard to chose a favorite print in this collection, so I ended up making two bags to showcase the fabric!
This is the lovely book cover I made using the portraits print from the collection. The book cover fits a 8.25″ x 5.5″ book. You can easily adjust the sizing to meet your book size needs. You can get the tutorial here:
I hope you enjoyed this project and new collection. Visit my blog Creamcraft Goods or follow me over on Instagram @creamcraftgoods for more inspiration, projects, or to see what I’m up to! I’d love to see pictures of your book covers! Please use the hashtag #creamcraftbook on Instagram.
Little Women by Jill Howarth is arriving in stores now, so check with your favorite quilt/fabric shop to see if they carry it. Thanks for reading along!