Article: Handmade handbags among many featured items at extravaganza.

Byline: Ana Maria Trujillo

Nov. 8--Ten years ago, Christine Drumright made her first handbag for a charity auction to benA-efit AIDS research in Denver. It was a simple black-and-white cotton bag lined with hot-pink silk. It sold for $100, and she has been making bags ever since.

Her Eldorado studio has alarge closet filled with them: small bags, large bags, multiA-colored, funky bags and simple bags.

"I started out as a quilter, that's what got me working with fabric," said the artist who signs her creations as bb goochi.

She started with pillows and other household decorations and finally made her first cotA-ton bag. Now her bags can bepurchased at Handwoven ...

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