- I finished my first Carkai bag. It isn’t perfect, the interfacing caused some bubbling and the straps could have been about 15cm longer. Naughty me; I tell my students not to point out their mistakes to everyone else. Do as a say, not as I do.
- Making the leather closure was very easy. I bought an A4 sized piece of leather and it was easy to cut into strips, sew and punch a hole through.
![brown sheets of leather](https://i0.wp.com/jujuvail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-09.45.46.png?resize=614%2C616)
- For my next bag I have bought strips of saddlery leather for the straps. This is much harder to punch holes in, for the straps and I think a need a larger rivet.
![3mm saddlery leather](https://i1.wp.com/jujuvail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-14-at-09.45.12.png?resize=617%2C613)
- This exaggerated sleeve trend is definitely coming. I quite like the cartoonish-ness of the silhouette but what does it look like on a non-model? Maybe it doesn’t matter. It looks crazy on everyone!
- But I like it much better than the cropped flare, which I detest! It’s stupid of me to hate this style so much, and yet, like the weird sleeve thing. They both distort the body. I guess the sleeve seems new to me, whereas the flare is familiar but made even more difficult to wear because of leg-shortening crop. Although I do think Lauren looks great in her cropped Birkin Flares. She has long legs though, and high heels – I think that’s the secret.
![Cropped Flare Style](https://i0.wp.com/jujuvail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Styles-to-Try-1.jpg?resize=640%2C649)
- Apparently, It’s not just me feeling the yellow love! Yellow is everywhere. Yay! It makes me feel like sunshine has arrived.
![yellow](https://i0.wp.com/jujuvail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/yellow.jpg?resize=663%2C822)
![Toast top in yellow](https://i0.wp.com/jujuvail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-11-at-08.51.53.png?resize=586%2C537)
- I’m still refining my list of spring coat ideas. (I know Spring will be over before I solve this problem, but it will happen again next year).
I think this Fillmore pattern from Sewing Workshop looks interesting, especially they way they have illustrated it, with stripes.
I wish they hadn’t made the model version in such dark colours. It’s difficult to see what’s going on, from the photograph. It seems like there’s a lot more texture than in the illustration. Has anyone else considered making this?
- I found another Spring coat for inspiration at Tales of Ted and Agnes.
I just love the yellow and brown floral fabric. Wow. Definitely looks vintage. I am a big fan of the sewing workshop!
Love your fun blog Juju and all the bits and bobbs you post about. So glad I’ve re-found you on the internet!
Nice to see you here too Hanna. You’ve done well to keep a blog up all these years. It’s fun to be back. So much has changed since those early days.