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See what I have been up to this week :
Friday, September 24
Tutorial - Off to the pumpkin patch
Still stashbusting: One more project from materials in my fabric bins.
Now that fall has finally caught up with me, I'm ready to prepare for Halloween! This year my mom is taking care of my little bug's costume so I have time to make other decorations. With a bit of orange fleece and some scraps of green crushed velvet, I sewed my first pumpkin.
For this project you will need
- 1/4 yard of orange fleece or felt
- Stuffing material
- Thread and needle
- A sewing machine that doesn't cringe about thick fabric (my old Singer would have been a bad candidate but my faithful Pfaff just went along with it.
- Cut 6 ( roughly 7 inch long by 2 wide) wedges of the orange fleece/felt
- Fold in half lengthwise and stitch a 2 inch pintuck on both ends
- This will define the shape of the pumpkin i.e flatten the top and bottom
- This is how it look from the wrong side (Left) and the right side
- Sew 2 wedges together wrong side togethers (i.e. pinktucks outside)
- Add a third wedge - You have now a half pumpkin
- Sew the second half pumpkin then attach the two halves on one edge
- Cut a piece 2x 4 inch piece of green fleece/felt (I'm still stashbusting so since I didn't have any and couldn't acquire some I went with what I had at hand...)
- Fold in half and attach to the top of your pumkin
- Stitch the last seams with the pumpkin inside out leaving a 2 inch opening
- Turn the pumpkin right side out and stuff it
- Stitch the opening
- Stitch some ridges to the stem
- Optional : add a leaf to your stem
Et voila !
Thursday, September 23
Purse week
Nothing quite a little challenge to get my inspiration in overdrive. So when I saw the Lemon Squeezy Home Purse week contest post I just got right onto it.
I had a few ideas already trotting in my head and I knew exactely where to dig up in my stash to find the supplies for 2 reasons, first I'm stashbusting with Robin @ The T-Shirt diaries and secondly I was already working on another purse project but shhh that one is a secret!
Note I almost tossed everything because that pretty blue fabric I picked out of my stash was fraying like crazy even though I had cut all the pieces with my pinking scissors. This is when I'm telling myself I really should invest into an overlock machine!So 2 late nights after this is the purse I put together for the challenge. As usual, I just winged it a bit as I was a bit limited in my supply options but this is not my first clutch. I learned a lot from my previous experiences like this one that I made for the Craftaholic Anonymous Christmas in July gift exchange :
This time I chose to make a couple of things differently.
- Added a gusset on each side
- Rounded the edges of the front flap and made it longer
- No apparent button as I figured a good way to conceal the magnetic snap
So without further ado ... my latest purse creation: the China Blue Clutch.
How did I do ?
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