Castine Handcrafted

08/29/2024

Hitting the road for the Expo at Sew Whatever Studio. I brought extra helpers to run the booth. ❤️

05/31/2024

Look what I made! I was actually able to sit down and sew a bag this month! This is Oro Rosa newest release The Coupeville Tote! I have always been inspired by with the old Dooney and Bourke green and brown. So it’s no surprise that I had to make this bag in those color. As always I used leather for this bag and decided to change up my lining to a cotton woven fabric instead of WPC 🫣.

09/18/2023

I made a bag! It’s been well over 3 months since I sat at my machine to sew! So excited for Oro Rosa New release today! The Carlotta Commuter! I made mine with Leather 💕.

07/01/2023

I forgot my sign so I quickly made a new one! I think this might be my new favorite sign! The back has hinges so it can close to be smaller. Not perfect but when I get home I can fix the letters and use a more permanent glue!

05/12/2023

Hey! Me and Chanova are live over on our youtube channel! We are sewing up Catalina from Oro Rosa!

Come sew and chat with Chanova and I! We are sewing the Catalina by Oro Rosa.

09/15/2022

Checkout this cool skill builder! Color block straps.

01/26/2022

Hi Everyone,

It looks like some of the shipping for the webbing was off so it was overcharging. I have corrected the issue and have refund the difference to those of you that overpaid for shipping. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I still have inventory of both color options, in both 1" and 1.5". It is precut, so will ship out either same day or next day depending on when the order is placed!

I appreciate all of the support!

12/13/2021

Excited to announce our new line of woven interfacing coming out Mid to late January. Check out the live replay on my channel and there is even a sneak peak of the next interfacing release that I am currently in the testing process for.

Don’t forget hardware will be releasing Saturday on my website 💝!

10/04/2021

Head over to the Lowarn Sew Along with Country Cow Design to receive the discount code for SewFuse Interfacing. 💕

Great news!!! We’ve got special discounts from various suppliers for the first session of the Lowarn Sewalong.
The first session is “Preparation and Supplies” and is all about sourcing the right supplies, fabrics, interfacing, needles, whatever you need to get ready for the sewalong! A few suppliers have very kindly agreed to provide special discount codes for the sewalong so don’t miss it!! This Sunday (3rd October) at 5pm UK time (BST).
It’s already scheduled on the Country Cow Designs YouTube channel so you can visit it and turn on a reminder now: https://youtu.be/NrGIlJDj1fg
Special discounts (codes will be announced during the sewalong) from
Zipper Valley
Little Stitcher Sews
Online Bag Supplies
SerialBagmakers
Vala Creative Designs
Siah Swag Bags
Castine Handcrafted
🥳🥳 what an awesome group of generous suppliers 🥰 and I’ll be doing a discount code for my own site too.
The sewalong is a total of 4 sessions across the first four Sundays in October:
1.Preparation & Supplies
2.Cutting & Interfacing
3.Straps & Top Panel
4.Finishing the Bag
All hosted live at 5pm UK time and available to watch after on the YouTube channel.
This GORGEOUS no pockets Lowarn was made by the talented Bed Hog Shop - check out her page for many more beautiful bags 😍

09/30/2021

Hi everyone I have a quick update.

Our header announcements on the front page of our website features our most up to date turnaround time for interfacing orders. Sometimes we are not always able to update our product listing right away. Please always go by those TAT.

Per our listings and shop announcement, orders placed September 28-October 8th will be shipped out between October 14-19.

We are currently experiencing some delays with our current shipment. Due to those delays I’m having to use my remaining stock for my booth at the Sew Magical expo in Kissimmee Florida at the Ga***rd Palms Resort October 8-10. Stop in and see me if you’re in the area!

I appreciate your patience and support and will get your orders out to you as fast as possible upon my return.

-Monica

09/17/2021

The newest pattern release from Oro Rosa 😍. The Lina is the perfect on the go handbag it features a interior zipper pocket and card slots 😱! The best thing is it’s currently reduced for the launch.

You can find both the pattern and my YouTube tutorial of me making this bag in the links below. 🥰

Oro Rosa Patterns:
https://ororosapatterns.com/r?id=9v1iov

YouTube Tutorial:
https://youtu.be/r5lZfmBGmv0

05/08/2021

Come chat with me while I sew up a Lola live on my YouTube channel I will be starting at 9 am CST. Link is posted below 😊

In this live I am sewing a Lola by Swoon. I am using authentic and traditional fabric from Mexico. The fabric has been fused with Sewfuse Plus and the foam ...