Hi all and welcome to our first pattern release for 2025, The Complete Messenger Bag! This messenger bag pattern really has it all, while including step by step instructions so you can customise it to exactly what you need, and then some! The Complete Messenger Bag includes one inner zipper pocket and two outer zipper […]
Hi all! Today we have a little freebie for all those who love our Good-To-Go Messenger Bag pattern – a bonus medium size that fits just perfectly between the existing sizes of small and large! After being asked ever-so-nicely by my parents for a messenger bag for Christmas last year that was in between the […]
Hi bag makers! Say hello to Polly! Initially available only to those subscribed to our mailing list, the Polly Cross Body Pouch was originally released as a thank you pattern for mailing list subscribers back in 2016. However, nowadays you can find her in our pattern shop, alongside all our other designs, and available for purchase! PLUS! […]
Hi all and welcome to another pattern release here at Andrie Designs for the That Flap Saddlebag! The That Flap Saddlebag was originally published in the October 2018 issue of the Australian crafting magazine Homespun, as the ‘Glamshell Essentials Purse’. However, since then, she’s had a major update and now includes not just one, but […]
Hi there and welcome to my first pattern release for 2018 – the Summertime Sling! This design evolved out of a request – I had the lovely Susan from Homespun Magazine contact me quite some time ago now, to ask if I’d be interested in designing a little girls handbag pattern for their October 2017 […]
The story behind this pattern is one that is very close to my heart… My wonderful Dad – someone who never asks me for anything – asked me to design him a bag. Not just any bag, he wanted something small and compact, that he could wear around his waist while working in the bush […]
I needed a birthday gift for my nephew… And I really wanted to make him something special. I bounced ideas around with my mum and she suggested a bag of some sort as he loved carrying around his toy cars – at home, and when out and about. After some brainstorming, the Good-To-Go Messenger Bag […]