Bags, bags and more bags.

The 24/7 walk-by Peninsula Fiber Artists’ “fiber habit” window at 675 Tyler St. in Uptown Port Townsend has on display an assortment of four dozen handbags, rice bags, beach bags, tote bags, a computer bag, a bottle bag and even a grocery bag.

“Bags, Bags, Bags,” many of which are available for purchase from the artists themselves, has been on display since December and will continue through January.

The bags were created by 15 Olympic and Kitsap peninsula artists, including Port Townsend’s Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Leslie Dickinson, Angie Dideum, Sue Gale, Kindy Kemp, Debra Olson and Ellen Thomas, as well as Port Hadlock’s Mary Tyler.

The remaining artists include three each from Sequim and Port Angeles, plus one from Bainbridge Island, and all the artists were commended by Peninsula Fiber Artists publicity chair Linda Carlson for demonstrating a range of techniques, including eco-dyeing, hand felting, crocheting and patchwork.

Debra Olson contributed to and curated the “Bags, Bags, Bags” exhibit.

“Since it was the holidays, we didn’t want to add too much to the lists of things that a lot of our artists already had to do,” Olson said, adding that bags are more “practically minded” creations that a number of their artists were making anyway, some due to the gift-giving season.

While a number of individual members of the Peninsula Fiber Artists have previously submitted textile-made bags for various exhibits, the current exhibit is the first she can recall being entirely centered around bags as a theme.

Olson noted that the bag-making techniques on display include “boro,” a Japanese-derived method of patching that employs the hand-stitching of distinctive scraps of fabric to keep them in place, as well as the digital printing of computer-enabled images, by an outside company called Spoonflower, that the artists then incorporated into their own work.

Meanwhile, plans for the next window exhibit are also taking shape.  “Home Sweet Home,” which is slated to remain on display from February through March, will showcase works that have a suitably “homey” feel, Olson said.

“This can include whatever comes to the artists’ minds when they think of home,” Olson said. “Whether it’s a cup of coffee, a birdhouse, a nest or images of different houses, it’s another theme that seems seasonally appropriate, since we just had our big winter holidays, so now, we’re all settling down until the spring blossoms.”

Olson expects the upcoming fiber habit window exhibit will draw the participation of at least close to a dozen of the Peninsula Fiber Artists, whom she praised for not only their “innovative” techniques of textile-making, but also for the creativity of their inspirations.

“That’s one of the biggest reasons I look forward to our meetings, is for our show-and-tell sessions of that work,” said Olson.

Members will meet in the Northwind Art space at Fort Worden on the morning of Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. Building 324 is on 200 Battery Way. Guests are welcome.