Zippered Pouch for Pens

I made my darling DIL this bag for her artist's colouring pens.  She picked the fabric...

Then I reorganized the zipper by which I mean, I cut off the stops so the slider came off then I pulled apart the two sides (with teeth).  I discarded one of the sides and made the remaining side into a loop and put the slider back on.  I love how the zipper finishes when its like this.

New Pencil Case

I love pink!

I love it already.  It is just the size to hold my random selection of Derwent Inktense Pencil Crayons.  I smile when I see it.

Pen case for my Drawing Pens

I love to draw and fill my spare time with sketching and doodling.  I love the Micron Pens I have but keeping them with me is a bit tricky.  If you look in the first picture you will see the red biscuit box that I keep coloured pens in.  I love it.  And its easy to stash in a bag for travel in my house or car.

I used the 'quilt as you go' technique to quilt a 14 by 9 piece of fabric to work with. The end of the red container is 2 1/4" in diameter so I drew that size circle and added a generous 1/4" seam allowance...

Lots of thick seams later I added some silk lace I have been saving and sewed it all together.

Pencil Case for my drawing pens

Pencil cases used to be something that we got new at the beginning of the school year.  Not whole wardrobes, just a pencil case...

I have been stepping up the amount of drawing I have been doing lately as well as observing the cool pencil cases I see on the internet.  I think I need one of those now.  So after a little pattern drawing, away I went.

You can see that I prequilted the sides and ends.  The side piece has stripey fabric put on to both ends like binding on a quilt.

Zipper in and ends trimmed.  I left the seams raw with zigzag overedge stitching to keep them from fraying.

More Plate Pockets

Carrying on, I made some more plate pockets, well actually some are for bowls but plate pockets sounds cuter...

And I tried them out with the dishes.  They worked great.  No more dusty dishes coming out of the shelves in the basement...  Yeah!

Plate Pockets

I am lucky enough to have two sets of dishes.  One for summer and one for winter.  The ones in storage are always in danger -- yes real danger of being chipped,  dropped or just messed up with the usual dust issues.  I started thinking I would look for a pattern for some sort of cover up for them....

Then I just decided to design it myself.  Leftovers from other projects and bits of batting....

I also wanted to experiment with invisible zippers as I had just seen a sewing show on TV about putting them in with your regular sewing foot.

TaDaaa...

I am really happy with the plate ones.  I wonder if I can manage to make some for soup bowls and saucers.

Patchwork Box Pouch Part 3 Finish

Just turned them right side out and what a lovely pair.  I can't wait to fill them with my toothbrush and other essentials.

Pretty

Thank you Ayumi

Patchwork Please!

posing with my project...

Patchwork Box Pouch Part 2

Still working on the Cosmetic Pouch as I am longing to get it done so I can use it on my next trip.  I am really loving the colours and Ayumi really knows how to get the directions clear.

 As I said before I put the lining on the back of the outside so I wouldn't have to line the finished bag.  Laziness I guess but it's working well.  I'm making two at the same time which also complicates.  So I'm looking at the seams on the inside and I'm not too happy so I carefully zigzagged and trimmed the edges.

Not so bad.  I like.  I took a couple of extra steps when I placed the zipper between the outside and lining and sewed with one go.  Then I quilted as I went...

Camera Cozy

Today I made a couple of camera cozies for my son and I.  I used that super heavy double sided iron on interfacing so I got a very stiff product.  I used this interfacing for my reader cozy and I liked it a lot.  It gives quite a bit of heft and I hope protection of the electronic item.  The green one is pretty simple with exposed zigzag stitching.  I'm not sure about the velcro just from the sound factor.  Often I am trying to get my camera out of my purse quietly at some function so maybe a button would have been better,  hmmm..

This red plaid one is more secure because of the zipper but it was a wrestling exercise to get it turned right side out after using that super heavy interfacing I got from Fabricland.  As you can see I topstitched along the zipper after I installed it as it just wouldn't lay flat with the stiffness of the interfacing.  I like this one too though.  We'll see which one my son chooses...

Cute little shopping bag

Guess what this is...haha, a new smallish shopping bag to carry in my purse so I will always have a bag for my personal stuff at Shoppers, and I won't have to pay their stupid $.03 any more.  Yeah, me.  Want to see what it looks like unzipped ?

I love it!  It came from Sew Mama Sew It is their featured tutorial.  Very clever.