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Create Along Friday

Posted on November 25, 2011 by SewTara| 2 Comments

Wow, so I guess I was busy this week. Friday is now my full day at work, thanks to this whole day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 thing we do in my school board, and I realized as I was drifting off last night that I hadn’t actually written today’s post. Then of course a day of work, a busy evening and last minute craft show prep has kept me from actually posting it. But here is my dumpling pouch a free pattern from my pattern selling friend Keyka Lou. **Her patterns are still just $5 until November 27th**

I love the fun rainbow/froggies in the rain print. For the inside I just reached into my scrap stash and grabbed something.

The pouch opens up ridiculously wide, it would be great for lots of little things like make up, art supplies, or crafting stuffs. The zipper goes in really well once you cut the little notches in it and my dumpling is only a little bit wonky on one side.

Just tilt your head a little and it looks like a really good pouch. Now I have no idea what advice to offer to get this side looking good. Maybe “close your eyes”?

I have absolutely no stinking idea how that happened and I’m stumped on how to fix it. I’ve turned the pouch and tried to resew that seam and every time I turn it back right side out that one corner is all stupid. Soooo oh well I’m just going to have to live with it. However, I will be trying again once I had some spare time! But if you don’t look to hard, or need the pouch to stand up on it’s own it looks great!

For my next trick I’m going to be sewing up one of these handy things. I’m usually fumbling for my headphones in the car to use my phone, or they get all tangled up in my purse or gym bag. I’m hoping this little friend will solve all those problems. Plus it’s got no corners so I can’t really mess it up too much!

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Cozy break for a keychain pouch!

Posted on November 17, 2010 by SewTara| Leave a comment

Made this last night as a way of productively procrastinating. I have to make even more cozies than I thought now that I have to replace the load I took to Cup of Tea. I’ve also got some orders in the last few days to fill. I needed a creative break.

So I turned to my favourite pattern maker and whipped something up.

I added the button, which I’m not too sure about. I wasn’t entirely sold on the velcro idea but I guess there’s a reason Keyka Lou is the pattern maker and I just sew stuff!

I’m such a creature of habit, doesn’t it look familiar?

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Random stuff to share.

Posted on September 5, 2010 by SewTara| 1 Comment

I haven’t really bothered to take any new pictures these last few days since I have no card reader to copy them over anyhow. Which means tomorrow I have a truck load of things to snap photos of! I’ve made a few really cute things and I need to add some items to my shop. On top of that I still have a line up of cup cozy orders!

In the meantime I figured I’d share some things I’ve had kicking around but just haven’t posted yet. The first is this awesome fabric I picked up at a Mary Maxim tent sale on clearance. It’s really 50′s-ish looking and so fun. I think I may tackle turning it into a quilt, with some reds, oranges and browns. I think it could be really nice.

I also whipped together another pouch. Sometimes I have what appears to be ‘beginner’s luck’ but I don’t realize it until I make the second item. The first crayon cozy I made I used rick rack without incident. Haven’t been able to pull rick rack off properly since!

Then I made the lovely Snow White pencil case and it all turned out beautifully. But when I made this one something wonky happened at the zipper ends and instead of nice squared corners I have rounded ones. It’s not that big of a deal but since I know it’s not what I intended it bugs me.

We had a street party today. Everyone was invited and asked to bring a ‘ethnic dish’. Some people brought family recipes from way back, some people (like me) brought things they’re good at making but either way it was all fantastic!! There was waaaay too much food and a ton of desserts. The kids all banded together to run about like maniacs from lawn to lawn. While it was a tad cool, the weather was lovely, I just ran home to keep making teas. I came in when the kids seemed pooped and got everyone off to bed before some TV and stitching. Now I’ve switched to bed and lappy and it sounds like the party has switched to ‘now that we’ve all drank too much lets sing along to whatever song is on’. It’s kind of funny, even with the window closed I can sort of here them, but they sound so enthusiastic and like they’re enjoying themselves it’s making me smile.

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My first zippered project!

Posted on August 20, 2010 by SewTara| Leave a comment

I went downstairs last night to make something that was consuming my brain. I did the usual, ‘oh I’ll just work through 1 show and then go to bed’ and as usual didn’t go to bed until hours later. After completing enough to get my creation out of my head inspiration struck while looking at some of my new lovely fabric scraps. Originally I wanted to attempt the boxy pouch but quickly realized none of my scraps were the right measurements. So I ventured off on a journey to make a lined pencil case type thingie. And boy did it turn out to be quite the journey!!

After much stitch ripping, brain scrambling and muttered potty mouth words I have a very sweet and cute Snow White zippered pouch! I even got fancy and stitched one of my new labels into it. Shout out to Jennifer for those wonderful little labels by the way.