Grab a FB friend, and enter to win a Coquette Bag & Pattern Set ($34.99 each) for both of you! Let us know via comment your name and your friend that joined my FB Fan Page.. and next Tuesday we will have 2 winners!!! It’s that easy! If you are not yet an Facebook, no problem! It takes about 2 minutes to sign up! Click here to reach Ellen Medlock Studio’s on Facebook! See you there!!! 

Please join me on our new Ellen Medlock Studio Facebook Fan Page! We are inviting all purse fanatics to help us grow to the next level of membership, 1000! Sooo…. here’s the FREE pattern part…. the first 1000 fans will each receive the popular “Retro Messenger Bag Pattern (a retail value of $11.99) after we top 1000, as a “thank you” for helping us get this party started!

I am super excited to build our on-line  community! We have alot of fun planned! Freebies, Sharing, Contests, Sew-Alongs, Coupons, Not you usual Discussions, ETC!!!

Simply click the link above, take a moment to join facebook, if you haven’t already, then “become a Fan”!  Can’t wait to see you there!  

~ellen

I have been wanting to capture this color before it fades! A favorite summer blue from the garden! Don’t you love Hydrangea’s!

~ellen

 Got off on a tangent (I know, hard to believe, right!?) and had these spiffy note cards printed from some artwork of mine that was just sitting around doing nothing! I love the feel of the Crane paper..  They are now available in my store. Check under the “Unique Paperie” tab or use this link! Many thanks for looking!

-ellen

Howdy! Just wanted to post a handful of new Interchangeable3 Bag ideas.. had a blast trimming these! Oh so many trims.. so little time!

Thanks for viewing!

-ellen

Very excited to add the Third Interchangeable Bag Design into my mix! The Interchangeable3 Bag Pattern & Handle Set is now available for PRESALE in my websites on-line store, and my etsy store as well. We will be shipping orders around May 1st, as soon as they arrive on the studio’s doorstep!  Look for it at your favorite quilt and sewing retailers soon after! If you are not familiar with my Interchangeable style bags, the clever frame allows you to create multiple bags, reusing the frame! This new style will be packaged intially with a choice of a Silver or Gold frame.

I really love this design because it can function as a daily use bag, or evening - all the decisions are yours! I have been using mine lately with one of our 45″ long fine shoulder chains, and have found I can double the chain for a whole new look! You can add oodles of beading and trim across the bottom of your Interchangeable3 bag, or omit it for a more casual look. I will be posting images soon of more of this style bag in my Bag Gallery.. incase you need a few more ideas!

-ellen

Just wondering if anyone else is into the whole vintage bag thing as well as making their own?!

Here are two new additions to my vintage bag collection I found this week while perusing at River City Trading Post in Jenks, OK. This bring my collection to a whopping total of 5! (mainly because I am too cheap to spend much!) After a bit of research I found out the box purse on top is by Dorset Rex, Fifth Avenue… a 1950’s find. It was instant love with this one! I was amazed that the clear plastic was in pretty good shape. The tote on the bottom has no markings but was so glittery, unique, and endearing, but I still carried around for awhile before making the big decision! Ha! No buyers remorse at all- ready to go back soon!

-ellen

So happy to find out the latest issue of Sew News Magazine features my studio in an interview for their Designer Digs column! My thanks to editor Beth Bradley, and to my husband Mike, who in a moment of panic snapped this photo of me just in time to beat their deadline! Phew!

Hello! Very excited to add this new fresh item to my store’s offerings! I am calling it the ”Enchanting Coquette” Bag Kit since it is made from my Enchanted Damask fabric design! This kit will be offered in a small Limited Edition~

The kit includes the Coquette Pattern and Handle Set in Antique Brass, plus the 4 project size pieces of fabric to make this cutie! ( I hope to find more of this ribbon so I can include it as well. ) Yardage of this fabric in several other colorways is in the production process, so please stay tuned!! Can’t wait til it arrives.

PS- want to add that the Coquette bag handle is removeable, so it can be used as a clutch, or you can attach a chain per our pattern instructions!

have a great weekend~  and thanks for stopping in!

-ellen

Hello! Had to check back through m previous posts to see if I had ever written about my Fabric Clock Set! It has been on my mind since it has received press recently in the latest “Vogue Patterns Magazine”, (What a classy mag!) in their Editor’s Choice column. Thanks so much, Vogue! You can participate in a drawing sponsored by Vogue to win a Fabric Clock Set of your own! See page 7!

 Don’t know how I let this fun kit slip past the Blog! :)  The creative possibilities overwhelm me with this kit! If I only had time to sit down and make all my clock ideas! Here are few: the obvious- make one for your sewing room, coordinate it to a quilt in a bedroom, or in a child’s room with a cute juvenile print or with their favorite character, or in the kitchen using a kitschy 50’s print, or in a teens room with a cool retro theme fabric, or as a gift to a friend using their fav fabric! Just another way for us fabric junkies to spread our obsession cleverly to every room!

-ellen