Each year, Craft Lake City makes VIP Festival bags. We strive to keep these bags handmade locally and, for 2014, we took our own spin on making custom fabric and teamed up with a few local businesses to make this happen. Tissu Fine Fabrics, Spilt Ink Screen Printing, Velo City Bags and Courtney Blair of Pattern Daily helped to make our vision a reality!
Tissu Fine Fabrics came up with a sample bag template, ordered the fabric and handles and sewed the 400 bags.
Spilt Ink Screen Printing individually screen printed each piece of fabric before it was sewn.
Velo City Bags pitched in with Tissu to get the handles for each bag measured and properly cut to size.
Craft Lake City Designer and DIY Festival Exhibitor Courtney Blair of Pattern Daily came up with the bag pattern featuring the Craft Lake City icons.
Along the way neighbors pitched in their sewing skills to help finish the bags and it turned into a legitimate handmade community project. The bags will be available at the 6th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival presented by Harmons Grocery Stores. The DIY Festival is sponsored by George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, SLC Corp., Salt Lake City Arts Council, From Scratch, 90.9FM KRCL, The Gallivan Center, Ken Garff Fiat Salt Lake City, SLC Flyers, SLUG Magazine, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Verizon Wireless, Adnews, Beacon Audio, City Weekly, Denik Journals, Design Arts Utah, Downtown Alliance, KCPW, The Mandate Press, Spilt Ink, Tattly, Tissu Fine Fabrics, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Zoo Arts & Parks, Acme Camera, 90.1FM KUER, Catalyst Magazine, City Home Collective, Skinworks, Tumbleweeds Film Festival and XMission.
