5 Reasons
5 things I should tell you before you look at the bags
Everything in our shop is 60% off with free shipping. I'd rather explain why than let you wonder.
Why everything is 60% off
It isn't a made-up birthday and it isn't a marketing exercise. I'm 64 now. My sister Millie is 61. After twenty-nine years we're winding down, fewer days at the machines and more days in the garden.
That leaves a room out the back full of finished bags that were made to be carried, not stored. So they're going out at 60% off, the shipping is on us, and the discount stacks the more you take.
Stacks on top of the 60%. Applied automatically at checkout, no code needed.
Millie and me at the machines.
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It holds its shape when you load it up
Most bags you see are printed flat on thin fabric, and they go floppy the first time you put anything in them. Ours are quilted, so the bag stands up on its own instead of slumping on the floor of the car.
The week's shop. A library book. Your cardigan for when the wind picks up. Reading glasses, a water bottle, and the thing you promised to drop off at your daughter's on the way home.
One bag, one ordinary Tuesday.
Took it to the shops last week and it swallowed the whole lot. Two bags of fruit, the milk, a loaf, and still room to spare. And the dragon on the front got me two compliments at the checkout.
Joanna M., Geelong VIC
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Twenty-nine years, and our mum told us not to bother
In 1997 we took on a shopfront in Ballarat we couldn't afford, with a sewing machine Millie bought off a bloke in Wendouree for forty dollars. I was 35. She was 32.
The first bag we made was quilted and covered in cats. Mum picked it up, turned it over, and asked carefully whether we'd thought about doing something plainer. Navy, maybe. Something people would actually buy.
We made eleven more with cats on them. Those eleven sold in four days.
The shop, not long after we opened.
Everything else is beige
Nobody has ever felt anything about a beige bag. You don't notice it. You don't reach for it, you just take it. You lug it about for a couple of years, then you chuck it and buy another one exactly the same.
Ours have a black cat asleep on a stack of library books. An owl in a winter tree. Hummingbirds. Dragonflies over water. A kelpie sitting in somebody's garden.
Somebody will ask you where you got it. That's rather the point.
Thirty days to change your mind, and when a design is gone it's gone
If it turns up and it isn't what you hoped for, send it back within thirty days and you'll get your money back. No forms to argue with, no reply that never comes.
The other half of it: we're not making more. What's in the room out the back is what there is.
Third one I've bought now. The first is still going strong after a year of being lugged about, and the colours haven't gone anywhere.
Margaret C., Bendigo VIC
Twenty-nine years is a long time to make the same thing and still care how it turns out. This is the last of it.
60% off everything, free tracked shipping across Australia, and thirty days to change your mind.
— Sophie
Once a design sells out it is not coming back