Fort Cloudy is mainly comprised of handmade totes and clutches. We are currently exploring regular sized purses and bags for musicians, including guitar pick bags, drum stick bags, and sheet music bags.  Our materials consist of canvas bags with either cotton or flannel lining. Our target audience is females between the ages of 14 and 40. The unique feature for our bags is the appliqué work focused around animals, food, and musical instruments.

My background in design is I started out actually sewing pillows, then moved to scarves, and tried my hand at bags. I feel in love with the whole bag making process and decided to take the designs from my scarves and place them on my bags. The whole thing began due to the encouragement of my mother who owns a local quilt shop.  To get some more design ideas I started looking to my friends’ interests to make them gifts and see if it would work for my purposes. Our Muffin clutch is actually designed for my friend Muffin's girlfriend. I thought it would be a cute thing for her to carry around.

For the past 10 years, my mother has been trying to get me to make my own clothes or purses off of patterns. Well I hate patterns. I would much rather do it the hard way, through trial and error? The first bag that I made with sides gave me headaches forever because I refused to get help on the corners. I guess it is kind of dumb, but I overcame it and I'm glad I did it myself.  Our greatest achievement is finding people that share our enthusiasm for our bags. We've been invited to several craft shows and other vending opportunities. It's worth it for me to do because I love seeing how people react to the things I am making.