Free Purse Sewing Pattern ~ Melissa Handbag

The Melissa Handbag has been a favorite for my customers for years.  And now anyone with a computer can have it FREE....!!!

Wow~!  It's your lucky day!

Just follow this link to my website and download the PDF file...

And then, pull out the potato sack and sewing machine for some burlap fun!

Potato Sack Purse Display

Here is a display of some of the potato sack purses available right now.  

Let me know if you want one!

No. 1 Washington Potatoes....!!!!

Yummy!  Potatoes from the rich Washington soil!

No. 1 Washington Potatoes

 I found a Washington Potato Sack, which was reason to celebrate 

with a Melissa Potato purse...!!!

Washington Potato Sack Bag

The Melissa Handbag Sewing Pattern is now FREE

What state is your favorite.....????  
Would you like to see a potato sack featuring YOUR state?

Miss Idaho Loves Her Potato Sack Purse!

Miss Idaho 2010: Kylie Kofoed

Just LOVES her true blue

Genuine Famous
Idaho Potato Sack 

Burlap Purse.

Isn't she so adorable!
Purse {Melissa Style} is kinda cute too.
Looks like she's got it packed full of stuff!
Glad she's getting some good use out of it!

Thanks for sharing, Kylie!
 we love you
:) Crystelle

p.s.

I know I have at least one of the Melissa Handbags

  available in the Potato Boutique shop right now.

so snag it up....

before it's gone!

also the pattern...if you want to sew up your own...
is available for free, as of July 2012

for the FREE Aerika purse pattern, click here...!!!

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New Fun Burlap Items

Hi there bloggy friends!

We have some cute fun burlap items for sale in the Potato Boutique Etsy shop!

I love the potato sack burlap house  pillow!

How about you....?????
:-)  Crystelle

for the FREE Aerika purse pattern, click here...!!!

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Burlap Hobo Bag Pattern Now Available *with free potato sack sewing instructions*

Well, in between children needing emergency medical care and husband having {scheduled} surgery I was actually able to get some sewing done:

The Danaye pattern is now actually finished!

Yay!

Hurray!

Celebrate!

It is such a fun pattern for your inner cowgirl...

Or just your inner frilly girl. 

Or whatever other style you are pursuing.

The possibility are ENDLESS!!!!!

I am excited!

Check it out on my Etsy site.

And of course I am throwing in the free potato sack sewing instructions.  

I used to charge for those
because it took me soooooo long to develop them, 
going through the TOUGH school of trial and error...

But ....
Now they are free!

So enjoy.

Have a VERY fun time sewing!

:)

me

for the FREE Aerika purse pattern, click here...!!!

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p.s.  free instructions on how to make those very cute burlap poppy flowers are right here... 

Royal Company for Potato Sack Bags

Hi there!

Aren't these two girls just precious!

Katy Lootens on the left is Miss Idaho Outstanding Teen 2010
Kylie Kofoed on the right is Miss Idaho 2010

In true Idaho style, they both own a genuine Crystelle Boutique Famous Potato Purse.

In this photo they are seen showing off the purse that belongs to Jaylee Patternson,  Co-Executive Director 
of the Miss Idaho Outstanding Teen Program

{more photo's will follow ~ check back soon}
Way to support your local spuds, girls! 
xox
Crystelle

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Melissa Potato Sack Burlap Handbag with Three Rosettes

Good Morning Friends!!

I can't get over how beautiful this month is.  The weather is mild and gorgeous.

No wind.  The sun is shining {but not tooooo hot....}

Oh, how I love September!

If only if t could be September all year around... 

My husband informed me that it is September only about 1/12 of the year....

Thanks Hon....!!!

 I have to keep positive and soak it up as long as I can!

Here is a custom order I sewed for Megan 

 
She wanted a Melissa burlap handbag, but without potato sack print.

She has great taste, because it turned out fun.

Update, July 24, 2012:

This pattern is now a free download.  Just follow this link for the Melissa Handbag . 

xox Crystelle 

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Eensy~Weensy~Teenie~Weenie Little Purse {Potato Sack Style}

hallo iedereen!

  hello friends!

as per Potato Boutique tradition:
another cute little Potato Sack Purse:
... ahhhh....love it!
  
I just love the little patches of potato sack print,
combined with rope and ric-rac

Note to self:
gotta use more ric-rac...

Happy burlap sack sewing!
:-) Crystelle

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Purses Made Out Of Feed Sacks

It is just so wonderful to see a purse that is made out of a feed sack!
I love the "green" feel to it.I love the outdoor, rural feel of reusing an existing burlap sack.
I love the feel of living off the land and making due with what you have that a real potato sack purse gives.


I love the feel of farming and country living that you get when you think of the original purpose of the feed sack.
Purses made out of burlap sacks are just wonderful!
Purses made out of feed sacks make you feel good to be alive!




The patterns to potato sack purses pictured and others are available at PotatoBoutique.Etsy.com
{which is also the place to get your own genuine potato sacks....}



Happy Potato Sack Sewing!
:-) Crystelle

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To view additional purses made out of feedsacks, please follow this link

Burlap Boutique Purse in Orange

Here it is: an ORANGE Ginny Potato Purse!The Ginny Famous Potato Purse has long been a Crystelle Handbags favorite, and here it shows up again....

The Ginny Famous Potato Purse is so much work to make, but then when you are finally done, you sit back and look it over, and you realize that it is just such a happy cheerful little bag you just can't help but smile..... :) .... BIG!!!! :D

• This particular Ginny Handbag has CUTE cheerful orange lining (which Leslie picked out....)...
  
• This Burlap Potato Sack Purse is for my friend Leslie's birthday. (today!!!!)
  


• She happens to be going on a 23 mile run on her birthday!
  

Good for her! Go Leslie!!!! :-)
Crystelle

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View more pictures of this cute potato sack purse right here

Crystelle Handbags and Crystelle Boutique

The Famous PotatoPurse was first created by designer Marijke Mill of Crystelle Handbags.
She combined her love for potatoes and designing into the burlap potato sack handbag {aka the Potato Purse}.


Christmas 2008, the website "CrystelleHandbags" was launched. It featured several different designs of bags, all made out of genuine Idaho Potato Sacks.

Marijke was quite surprised at how fast her business took off! People loved the Famous Potato Purse and ordered them by the dozens!!! She got busy cutting and sewing and cutting and sewing. Soon she realized that she couldn't keep up and desperately needed help! Some fabulous "sewing girls" came to the rescue and things started to become a bit more manageable.....The growth of the business was AMAZING!!!!!

And Marijke learned a few things along the way!

1. Running a business takes up a LOT of time {away from the children, I am embarrassed to admit}
   
2. At the end of the year she was NOT profitable.... shockingly! {especially considering how busy she and the "sewing girls" had been...!}
3. Her favorite part of the business was the DESIGNING of new patterns.....

So when the new year 2010 came around, she rededicated her business to pattern design, and renamed it Crystelle Boutique

It has been a lot of fun to dedicate her energy to design, and if people still want potato purses, they can make them themselves using the patterns and the potato sacks that are for sale at her EtsyBoutique.

And that's the story, and I'm sticking to it!
Crystelle

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Crystelle Boutique is the parent company of Crystelle Handbags

Fun Potato Bag Sewing Patterns and Genuine Potato Sacks are available at EtsyPotatoBoutique

Gunny Sack Totes

These burlap totes {made out of coffee sacks} were produced in Michigan. Burlap Boutique is run by a wife and mother who loves to recycle and reuse, and who loves coffee! Thus she began creating these fun bags!
Good for her! Sounds like the perfect combination for her!

Very fun!
Crystelle

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Chic Haute Potato Bag (aka PotatoSackPurse)

Hello Blogging Buddies! I made another Melissa Handbag!

I love this easy to sew pattern. And the bag always turns out so fun and great.

Exciting! This bag WANTS to go out on the town!

This very bag and the pattern is available for free at the main website:  CrystelleBoutique

See you there! Have a fantastically happy day!

Crystelle

The Melissa pattern is a creation of Crystelle Handbags

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Potato Sack Handbag/Purse/Bag with Rosettes

This famous potato sack bag is available for purchase right now at the Etsy Boutique.
Made out of true Idaho genuine potato sacks!


Run on over there to grab it before someone else does!









Don't you just love burlap rosettes....?????
:)Crystelle















July 2012:
The Melissa Handbag sewing pattern is now a free download.

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Burlap Rosettes are the HOT thing to make {and EASY too!}

I just love the way burlap rosettes look. I want to add them to ALL my sewing projects now!

And the good news is that they are just easy schmeezey to make!

In the picture I added some burlap rosettes to this Melissa Famous Potato Sack Purse.



Good Times!
Happy Sewing!
Crystelle

Update, July 2012:
The Melissa Handbag Pattern is now a FREE download

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