Compact Barrel Tote
Our designer tote uses beautiful Renaissance Ribbons to their best advantage: as focal point embellishments against a solid fabric. We include detailed instructions and lots of helpful photos to walk you through every step.
Totes
Stylish Monogrammed Weekender Tote
This larger tote combines some of our favorite fabric types: natural & nubby twill, soft faux suede, and happy gingham for a pop of color and pattern. It also has the perfect soft feel, which makes it extremely practical and packable.
French Market Tote with Chain Handles
Make a bold statement as you stroll the open air markets of France – or perhaps simply while shopping the aisles of your local grocer. This bag is a lovely blend of unique trim, dramatic fabric, precise fussy cutting, and appliqué.
Box Style Tote with Yarn Wrapped Handles
Our simple box tote adds eye-catching yarn wrapped handles + hand stitched accents for a pop of bold Summer color against a solid background. We chose fiery red, fresh green, and golden yellow. It’s surprisingly easy.
Mesh + Cotton Beach Bag
Vibrant fabric accents look great against the bright color of the mesh and the gleaming nickel hardware. Plus, the mesh body lets sand and dirt sift out while at the same time allowing air to flow in and help dry out suits and towels.
Round Heavy Duty Bucket Tote
With a generously-sized round bucket tote, you can keep all your tools of the trade together so they’re handy to take from room to room or out and about. For extra toughness, we suggest canvas on the exterior as well as the lining.
The Quick + Easy Angela Bag
If you’re brand new to bags, this is a super quick and easy project to kick off your experience. It starts as one long panel, then folds up with finished seams inside and out. Dive into your scrap stash for your best bold prints.
The Boho Bandana Bag
This project is excellent for young kids or anyone just learning to sew. Classic bandanas on the outside, denim on the inside, layered webbing handles, and bound all around. Add a mini pom tassel for extra fun.
Foldaway Fabric Shopping Bags + Carrying Case
This pair of foldaway cotton grocery bags comes with its own carrying case. It’s compact enough (just 5″ x 7″ x 2″) to throw in your purse or keep in the car’s glove box. There’s even a handy front pocket to hold a shopping list.
Super Sturdy Travel Tote
It’s a generously sized tote with an open top to make it easy to pack and unpack. The 5” boxed corners have a cool reverse, riveted style. And, we added a horizontal strap at the back to slip over the handle of rolling luggage.
Extra Large Shopper Tote
We used barkcloth in bold tropical prints for our dramatic totes, but other mid-to-heavyweight substrates would work too. The generous size makes it perfect as a market shopper, everyday carryall or even a diaper bag alternative.
Western Style Multi-Pocket Handbag
Unique accents are the perfect path to a professional bag finish. This terrific tote has rivets securing the straps, jean buttons on the side pockets, cool metal grommets, western style pocket flaps, and twin needle topstitching.
The Lydia Bag
Fast and easy construction, but without sacrificing any style! You can make this beautiful bag in an afternoon while practicing your straight seams, topstitching, and boxed corners. Mix a bold solid with a pretty print.
Modern Two Tone Tote with Leather Handles
Light/dark – they say opposites attract, and that is at the core of this gorgeous two-tone tote. The striking contrast gives the project a modern look with a sleek simplicity that sets off the focal point: real leather handles.
Sewing Patches Tote
If you’re sewin’ and you know it… clap your hands. Honor your favorite hobby with our fun machine embroidery patches. Free downloads are included in 6 popular formats. We used Sulky 30wt cotton for a perfect matte finish.
Basket Weave Quilted Tote
A quilted top with a plain base. Mixing large and small motifs as well as textures is a great way to balance your design and bring in variety. Finish the look with sleek piping accents and pretty over-the-shoulder straps.
The Retro Diner Bucket Bag
It’s a fabulous fifties flashback – retro cool but with modern features that make it easier to construct. We love the bold chevron accent on the front and back, reminiscent of the two-tone tail fins of the ’50s era cars.
Travel Tote with Handy Wraparound Pockets
Plenty o’ pockets to stash all your stuff! There are four big outside pockets that wrap front and back plus a deep inside compartment. We offer a free set of pattern downloads for the tote body as well as all the pockets.
Embroidered Teardrop Tote
Generous in size and style thanks to a perfect combination of bold fabric and striking embroidery. Use our free machine embroidery design download or the free printable template for hand embroidery.
Lion’s Head Machine Embroidered Handbag
Neutral tones of canvas and a simple mini-tote style combine into the perfect backdrop for our stunning Lion’s Head machine embroidery design. We offer a free download in six popular file formats.
Quilted Jumbo Carryall
Tightly spaced, straight line quilting goes right across the appliqué for an unbroken pattern that wraps from front to back. We designed the modern “skyscraper” appliqué on the front and back to feature jelly roll strips.
The Quintessential Plaid Tote
It has all the traits needed to rocket to the top of the totes. Precision cutting – both straight and on the bias, piping accents, and corded handles are just a few of the styling particulars that give this bag its iconic appeal.
Fabric Basket with Angled Handles
There are so many ways to approach a fabric basket. For this one, we designed a set of unique “V-point” angled handles in a bold contrasting color, then added a big satin bow as a final sweet touch.
Zippered Thermal Picnic Tote
Insulated with thermal batting to help keep food warm or cold. Plenty of interior pockets – all in easy-care PUL. And the top inset zipper provides a secure closure so even if the tote tips, your picnic doesn’t spill.
All Weather Tote in Cotton Laminate
Make it in vinyl, faux leather or cotton laminate to whisk away the weather. We even used a weather-resistant zipper for the outer pocket. With 5″ box corners, you can handle a full load of power shopping rain or shine.
Metallic Leather Tall Tote
Tall, thin and elegant, this bag could be a runway model. Or maybe at least be carried by one of those long-legged beauties. Soft faux leather is the perfect background for the beautiful jacquard ribbons from Renaissance Ribbons.
Faux Leather Shopper
This tote is designed in a shopper style, which means it’s a generous size that opens wide at the top and can be slung over your shoulder or carried by hand. We recommend easy-to-sew faux leather and vinyl for the sleek look.
Reflective Mini Tote
When the light outside dims, it’s the perfect time for a bag with built-in reflective capabilities. Although designed with kids in mind, there’s no reason it couldn’t be used for adults as well. Just lengthen the crossbody strap.
Ripstop Grocery Bags
Lightweight enough to fold away into their own handy carrying case, but tough enough to take on the big shopping chores. We used bound ripstop nylon for a great set of flexible totes that work as hard as you do.
Time to Travel Tote
Fussy cutting of multiple motifs is the name of the game in creating this bag’s special look. The front features a fabric flower, and decorative metal rivets help hold the strap ends in place for a subtle dash of dimension.
The Metro Bag
For this unique crossbody bag, we created “ribbon fabric,” taking one ⅝” wide ribbon and stacking it to create matching accents of varying widths: single, triple and quadruple. An amazing embellishment that adds great texture.
Boho Shoulder Bag with Elastic Accents
Our fun and casual bag features two generous pleated pockets bound with fold-over elastic. It not only looks great, it’s also super functional; expandable pocket tops make dropping in items easy, even one-handed.
Upcycled Cloth Grocery Bags
Make a better grocery bag by doubling-up thinner store-offered cloth bags, resulting in a new bag strong enough to carry very heavy loads. Pretty accent panels and handy pockets are icing on the functional and fashionable cakes.
Ruffled + Reflective Trick or Trick Tote Bag
Surveys say ghosts, ghouls, and well-dressed witches overwhelmingly prefer a beautiful bag. Raw-edged ruffle strips decorate both sides along with a bright strip of reflective tape to catch the beam of a headlight or flashlight.
Tall Drawstring Laundry Bag
This heavy-duty, jumbo duffle is nearly three feet tall with a drawstring top that allows for easy stuffing. And, with its sturdy strap slung over-the-shoulder, it can be carried down to the laundry room – or home for mom to do!
Insulated Shopping Tote
Load up this pretty tote with food you need to keep cold (or hot for that matter), seal up the top, and everything stays the right temp for a ride home from the grocery store or a trek out to your favorite picnic spot.
