I’ve decided that I will no longer offer applique’d and embroidered artwork as an option on my bags, effective immediately. The reasons for this are multiple, but the primary one is time. Zugster Bags is a part-time operation, and the artwork takes a lot of time, both to accomplish on a day to day basis, and to become really good at. What it comes down to is that I’d rather spend that time designing new bags and experimenting with new materials, not making the same thing over with different artwork – that part’s just not interesting to me. So other than a couple of orders currently in progress, no more. Anything that’s doable with a straight-stitch is still on the table – stripes and multi-color flaps, for example.

For anyone whom this disappoints, I apologize. I highly recommend Under the Weather, RELoad, Seagull Bags, and PAC as folks who can do a far better job than I could at turning anything you can imagine into high quality flap artwork.