For some reason I’ve been really busy at my sewing machine lately. Every day I find myself holed up in my sewing room with little bits of thread hanging from my hair, on my clothes and pretty much all over every surface in the entire house.
Once I start on a project I seem to lose my sense of time and what else needs to get done around here. In other words, we’ve been living off take-out pizza and canned tuna for a few days now and the house is looking a little worse for wear (not yet squalor state yet though!).
Here are a few finished items from the last week:
I’m trying to bring the funky back to smocks for the little ones. Oh yeah, it was never there. But seriously, I’m going to change the way the world sees smocks. I have big plans.
Unfortunately I had some issues with this MaxMara fabric running (see the little white lines coming from the bias?) due to the stretch in the fabric. Any tips out there on how to avoid this? Thinner needle perhaps?
I’m in the process of taking a creative map making course over on Skillshare and I decided to step away from the computer and do something handmade. I printed off a map of Europe on some cotton muslin and embroidered our first trips as a family. Now I still have to figure out whether I make it into a pillow, or something to hang on the wall etc. Any ideas?
Last week I finished making up a few wallets in our sewing group. It was always one of those projects that seemed too advanced and complicated but in the end it was actually quite do-able. There are a lot of pieces involved and three weights of interfacing but I didn’t have a breakdown…not even once.
Look! A zipper pouch, credit card pockets, and a snap closure! What more could you want in a sewing project? Pattern from 101 Fabric-by-Fabric Ways To Sew a Metre by Rebecca Yaker.
And last but not least, today I whipped up this little bag (similar to this one from a few weeks ago). This beautiful cotton fabric is Point of Sail by Michael Miller.