StudioKat Designs offers original handbag patterns and designs so you can create your own unique pieces of "art-to-wear".

My name is Kathy Southern, and StudioKat Designs is the creative outlet I fashioned, to allow me a respite from my 30-year career with the City of Winston-Salem. I live in Advance, NC with my husband Bubba (its TRUE! ), and two adopted cats that have taken over our lives, named Jeter & Joba (can you tell we LOVE the New York Yankees?).

I am a confirmed "purse FREAK", always having had a love, and an appreciation, for a well-made and thought out handbag! (My closet is full of purses, not shoes!!!) In the past few years however, I have been increasingly disapointed in the boring and unimaginative selection available commercially. The last straw, was when we were planning my daughter's wedding and I was trying to find a unique and elegant bag to carry as the "MOB", but all I could come up with was just your typical, boring, and uninteresting clutches, in gold or silver. I couldn't even find a cool pattern in order to make one for myself!!!!

All my designs are one-of-a kind and totally original. I specialize in meticulously written instructions with drawings that even a sewing novice could follow. It is my firm belief that your purse should serve YOU, yet also be as unique as you are! The "Bags with Panache" patterns provide you with an opportunity to own a functional bag that is also stylish and one-of-a-kind......... like YOU!