Signature Bags

Book excerpt: Fashionable and functional clutches, bags and totes! Indulge your artistic side with Signature Bags! In this fashion-forward collection, you'll find clutches, totes and purses that will suit any occasion and complement any look. Pattern designer and sewist Michelle Golightly has brought together her favorite projects that are sure to turn heads. While the term "handmade bags" is often associated with frumpy, misshapen pocketbooks your grandmother might carry, Michelle's designs have a fresh, fashionable feel. Detailed step-by-step instructions, informative illustrations and helpful tips make sewing the bags possible for any sewer. Whether you're dashing out the door with your Lunch Date Clutch, packing up your Farmer's Market Tote or gifting a friend with a Provence Travel Bag, the projects in Signature Bags would look at home on the runway, but they'll look even better on your arm!