I've made a few things with the machine so far, actually. At first I just did some random stitches down a piece of cloth, which I think I accidentally threw out. Awesome. After that I made 2 simple little drawstring bags out of some rectangles cut from a sweater my boyfriend hates, and an old skirt I have that is falling apart. A little wobbly, but not bad. Nothing I'd give to someone else, but I'd use them. I'm actually keeping my extra little sewing machine parts in the bag made from the skirt. The machine has a compartment for them but it opens sideways. So if I were to open the drawer, everything would just spill out. ..Whyy..? Anyway, yeah, super sweet.
I saw a project a few weeks ago in the internet, and I thought I'd give it a try. It's one of the MANY t-shirt recon projects out there, and I have a shirt that I haven't worn in ages due to a hole I had no idea how to fix, but I just LOVE it and have had it for probably half my life. The project is to turn it into a tote bag using either staples or sewing, and some duct tape. Here's where I found it originally, but I found other tutorials in which people used a sewing machine in stead of a stapler. So I bought some purple duct tape at my local Hobby Lobby and got to work, and made this AWESOME bag!!
Whatever's on the front of the shirt ends up being on the side of the bag, but that's alright, off-center things are pretty cool! This will be a great bag to use during the fall season with Halloween and general spookyness abound. It was also good practice for sewing on a curve. I made a line around the opening of the bag and the armholes, mostly for decoration, and they were curvy pretty much all the way around. None of the bag is by any means perfect, but it holds itself together and I think it looks pretty awesome! The only problem is that it's pretty huge, if only I had some sort of smaller bag to put inside of it for tiny things that like to roll around.. hmm...
So today I made a zippered pouch! I know, ambitious, but I'm the kind of person to dive right in, and I am *so* happy I did, it came out so cute! I used this tutorial and fabric I purchased from this etsy seller in a fat quarter pack which I LOVE. The zipper I got from Hobby Lobby. I used some interfacing which I got there as well. PICTURES!!
The fat quarter bundle I got came from the same set of fabrics which all go together, so it was easy to pick 2 to make a really cute little pouch. The tutorial up there is *REALLY* great and has step by step instructions on how to do it. I was really afraid of sewing zippers but I got through it without a hitch with her instructions. I love this pouch and I can see myself making many more in the future. Well, that's it for now! Hopefully I get some fabric I ordered soon so I can work on my SUPER SECRET AWESOME PROJECT and share it with you and the world. Tata!!
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