Charvelle Compact

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Be Inspired!

One of my favourite parts of the testing process is seeing a pattern through different creative eyes, and the Charvelle Compact did not disappoint.

Fifteen talented testers brought this design to life with their own fabric choices, flap styles, hardware, and finishing touches - each one giving the bag a completely different personality. ❤️

Testers' opinion on the sewing level for this pattern:

  • 10 voted Adventurous Beginner - someone who is relatively new to sewing but enjoys exploring new techniques or projects that may be slightly more challenging.
  • 5 voted Advanced Beginner - has a more solid foundation in basic sewing skills and is ready to tackle slightly more complex projects but still requires some guidance and practice.

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Tester - Leanne Clay, Australia
Shop Link - Clay & Co. Handmade; mysewingadventures1987
Machine used - Bernina B570 domestic
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cut and Sew - 3 hours 
Material used - 
All prints are leftover from cut and sews! Stabilizer - Sew in ultra firm, some decovil.


Tester - Karen Tay, Singapore
Shop Link - TK Embroidery
Sewing Machine used - Brother NV950D
Cutting Machine used - Cricut Maker 3
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - 20min Cut / 2hrs Sew
Materials Used -
Cinnamon Water Canvas / Blue Vinyl / Water Resistant Lining. Foam
Melody - Water Resistant Oxford with Pink Diamond Vinyl Stabilizer - Self Adhesive Foam 

Tester - Jenn Hoopert-McGinn, Pennsylvania from the USA
Shop Link - Jenn's Homemadeology; IG Jennshomemadeology 
Machine used - Vintage domestic Sears Kenmore 158.17550
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cut and Sew - 2hrs, 2.5 with pipping and 2 tone strap
Binding Method - Standard Method 
Materials used -
Bonded repel, vibrantvue from Sewfisticated Supplies.
2mm sew in foam and ultra firm 1.5mm sew in both from Sewfisticated supplies



Tester - Destiny Sky Nelson, USA
Shop Link - Lazy Cat Handmade
Sewing Machine used - Juki DU1181N
Recommended Skill level - Advanced Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - Cutting took maybe an hour/hour and a half. Sewing took about 3-4 hours for me with chasing my two kids
Material used -

Exterior and interior are from Hobby Lobby, suede, faux leather. They come on massive rolls and didnt have any specific names. Hardware and thread is all from Wawak. I used Pellon 78.

Tester - Lauren MacMullin
Sewing Machine used - Janome HD9
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - 5 hours maybe start to finish
Material used -

Bag #1: Lots of the Rings vinyl exterior from Alchemats, Teal Cork from Emmaline Fabrics. WPC interior from THCG Supply. Hardware from Alchemats and Emmaline Fabrics.

Bag #2: Canoe panel is WPC from THCG Supply, Ivory/Mint/Blush cork from Emmaline Fabrics. Interior floral canvas from Emmaline Fabrics. Hardware from Emmaline Fabrics and Country Cow Designs.

Bag #3: Exterior Musical Floral Litchi Vinyl from THCG Supply, Aqua cork from Emmaline Fabrics. Interior cow fabric WPC from THCG Supply. Hardware from Emmaline Fabrics and Country Cow Designs

Decovil Light for all. Added from fusible fleece to the canoe WPC panel for some loft and stability since it wasn’t vinyl.


Tester - Laura Cooper, Idaho USA
Machine used - Sailrite Fabricator and techsew 2750 pro
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cut and Sew - 2 hours
Material Used -
Black- quilted vinyl from SCD supplies, twilight vinyl from K&A fabric interior bonded nylon from Tulip Bee. Floral and teal on flap from Zipper Valley, brown quilted from SCD Supplies lining bonded nylon from Tulip bee

Tester - Kris Bowen, USA
Shop Link - Bow 'n Needle Crafts
Sewing Machine used - Thor GC 1341 cylinder for the exterior, Juki TL 2010Q for the interior
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - First one: 12 hours
Material used -

Exterior: Marine vinyl, 2 different dark green vinyls. Interior: Vibrant Vue.
Flap: Sewfisticated foam, the rest was Sewfisive 2.0

Exterior: Dimples, marine & patterned vinyls. Vibrant vue for the lining.
Flap: Sewfisticated foam, Sewfisive 2.0 for the rest

Exterior: quilting cotton, two different vinyls, Vibrant Vue for lining
Flap: Sewfisticated foam, the rest was Sewfisive 2.0


Tester - Susi Schuegraf, Mexico
Shop Link - Jungle Pearls
Sewing Machine used - Industrial Juki du1181n 
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner 
Cut and Sew - Always hard to answer, this is a definite quick sew able to do start to finsh in a day
Material used - 

Sewful therapy and wonderground lining, turn lock siah swag. The self adhesive foam from Sewfisticated Supplies.




Tester - Kay Triffitt, Australia
Shop Link - Kay Triffitt
Sewing Machine used - Industrial- Typical GC20665L14D
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - Very quick to cut out due to small pieces and even though I am a slow sewer, it was very quick to sew too 🥰 30 mins cutting and with piping, 3 hours.
Material used -

My all black one, the linen look vinyl is from Sewfisticated supplies and the croc vinyl from Merezen. The lining is from Sewfisticated Supplies. My pink and floral one. The floral is frim Beautiful Faux leather and the pink quilted vinyl is from Sewfisticated supplies and pink lining from Voodoo rabbit and my black and lace one, black linen look vinyl from Sewfisticated supplies, lace vinyl from Beautiful Faux leather, strap webbing from Merezen and lining from Sewfisticated supplies. All hardware from Merezen.

Stabilizer: Sewfisticated adhesive foam 2mm




Tester - Kelly Pederson, USA
Shop Link - kelmadeit
Sewing Machine used - Juki DDL 8700 industrial and Thor 1341 industrial I used both on all 3 bags.
Recommended Skill level - Advanced Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - About 40 minutes to cut and about 90 minutes to sew a bag start to finish (if this seems crazy fast I'm told that all the time LOL)
Material used -

Love bag used Genderfluid plaid vinyl from Snow Willow designs (out of business) modern black vinyl from marine vinyl fabric, sewfisticated twill for the interior basic hardware from amazon. The Trek bags were carbon fiber vinyl from marine vinyl fabric, cotton woven prints were from Geek Garden fabric.Basic hardware from amazon,

I used Sewfisive heavy foam and the cotton woven was interfaced with dulce fuse from Sew Dulce hardware and more.


Tester - Laurie Chow Kanter
Shop Link - PuzzledStitches
Sewing Machine used - Juki TL-18 and Juki LS-1341 (for thicker seams and final topstitching)
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - 5 hours
Material used -

Blue cork from Sallie Tomato and floral vinyl (forgot where I bought it); reflective vinyl Fromm Sew Awesome Supplies.

Sewfistive premium mainly, but one side fusible foam for gusset (though I didn’t fuse. I used three rows of 3/4” double sided tape)


Tester - Shari Watson, Canada
Shop Link - MadebyShari
Sewing Machine used - Juki DU1181
Recommended Skill level - Advanced Beginner
Material used -

Disney vinyl from Blended Thread Fabrics, pink pebble vinyl from Emmaline Bags.Hardware is from Emmaline bags.

Sewfisive foam for boast with extra piece of peltex

 

 

Tester - Chanova Mabry, USA
Shop Link - chanovaalcala
Sewing Machine used - Juki 1541s industrial
Recommended Skill level - Advanced Beginner
Cutting/Sewing Time - 4 hours
Material used -

The main prints wpc and vinyl are from thumbs and thimbles. The coordinating vinyl and wpc are from fabric wholesale direct.

For the the star trek adhesive foam from Michaels . Hello kitty i used Sewfisticated design self adhesive 2.0 heavy




Tester - Tina Alanis Carbajal, USA
Machine used - Brother Innovis
Recommended Skill level - Adventurous Beginner
Cut and Sew - A few hours to cut all and sew each bag
Material Used -
LSF Minnie - Bow vinyl and LSF Minnie - Ribbon WRC from The Backside of Water, Black Embossed vinyl, twill and self-adhesive foam from SCD

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