The left pile are the trials on padded styles. I started with quilting and padding the spinnaker sail, as it was, later on it became quilted without padding and cut up and assembled in slanted panels. In this stage the white toplayer was added. Only, as the fabric was to slippery, the topstitches were very messy, so I had to go back to add padding. Padding made of synthetic waste garments exists, but has not been used until now due to high minimum quantities. The use of the bright colored pipings came from trying to combine both bright and the chalked colors in one style. I was quite struggling with how to have matching topstitch colors on the bright pipings, wondering how to manage the constant change of bobbins. When I suddenly noticed that thanks to the white toplayer and topstitches, white topstitches looked good on the pipings to.

On the right pile you see the smocked trails. As you can see, both piles started with the same flashy pink sail. Opposed to the quilted trials, where I could make the paddings panels by hand, the smocked fabric had to be done at the manufacturers right away. It was quite exciting to explore the possibilities and the limitations of the stretchy material. It took a lot of attempts to find shapes and trimmings that valued the character of the fabric. Out of almost 20 trials only 4 made the selection. The white color blocking allows the overall use of white zippers, elastics, toggles and buccles. You can find the selected bags for sale in the trade section.It is also nice to see the evolution trough the sampling. Where at the start both styles looked a bit similar, you can see how they bothe evolved in different direction.