How was your weekend?

I’ve been busy immersing myself in my craft room making stuff. While tracing, cutting and sewing in there, I run around for my kids when they call “Mommy…. come see this!” Haha.. yes, we’ve got a new BluRay DVD player all the way from Hong Kong, brought back with love from hubby. So the kids has been enjoying some screen time at home while Calvin printed out some craft from the Net in making his Minecraft world, completed with bed, a horse, the good guy and the bad buy (Enderman as far as I know). That has kept him busy since Friday night. This little guy, once he started with something, he would want to finish it right away, thank God that he has the patient in finishing them.

I think he inherited that from me, ‘cos while he busy with his craft, I was busy with my sewing projects. Really, I can’t wait to see the end result of my craft every time I started one. I have to keep on reminding myself to enjoy the process as much as possible.

So, here goes, these are the stuff that I’ve made over the weekend. They are in the same pattern with my previous bags, but in different sizes.

 

 “Party Line” Colorful stripe pouch

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 7.5″ x 4.5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

Can fit in a phone, cash, cards, etc.

SOLD

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“Party Line” colorful balloon pouch

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 7.5″ x 5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

Can fit in a phone, cash, cards, etc.

SOLD

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Khakis polka dot pouch

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 7.5″ x 5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

Can fit in a phone, cash, cards, etc.

SOLD

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 As for this clutch below, I’ve tried on a new technique – piping. Yupe, and I must say I’ve done it beautifully seeing that this is my first time. I think I love it and I’m going to do more of it on other bag/pouch/clutch that I’m going to make in the future. It just give the bag a finishing polish touch.

Going to reserved this one for myself.

Polka dots clutch

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 11″ x 7″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket Inside
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

Can fit in wallet, phone, cash, cards, keys etc.

RESERVED

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Am glad that I’ve spent my weekend well with sewing up these stuff.

I love Polka dot, they are just so cute. Over the weekend I’ve made 3 more pouches / clutch. All are being reserved.

 

Khakis polka dot pouch with handle

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 9.5″ x 6.5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

SOLD

Red polka dot pouch

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 12″ x 7″ x 2.5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

SOLD

Grey white stripe pouch with handle

Measurement:
Dimensions: approximately 8″ x 5.5″
Made with linen cotton
1 Opened Pocket
1 Zipper Pocket behind
Magnet Button Closure
Fully Interfacing and batting

SOLD

Remember this post that I’ve written – Sewing pouches.. Well.. I did another one using the fabric that I’ve bought earlier on, and I’m calling it the “raindrops and cloud pouch”.

 

This time, I”ve made the handle slimmer and an add-on pocket behind with sew-on snap.

 

I thought it would look nice with a green background.. well.. what do you think?

The snap area has been decorated with a cute little white button too.

 

I’ve used a bit of the yellow patterned cotton at the back of the pouch so that it has bit of a pattern, which turn out to be not bad at all.. This is the extra for this pouch – another clip in area maybe for card or even pieces of tissue.

  

Here you can see the yellow fabric.

 

To me, this pouch is just nice to bring along for a meeting with your staff card, hand-phone, tissue and business cards. You can just sling it on your wrist and still can hold your files or other stuff with both hand.

All fabric has been enhanced with fusible or make it more sturdy.

 

Edited: This has been taken.. 😉

Happy Tuesday! How was your week going so far?

Mine has been spent sewing and spending time with friends and family. Last evening was spent with old classmates where we just sat together, catching up, talking non-sense, just being silly and jokes with one another. In a way, it just give us the space and time, moment together. That in a way I believe it brings us closer.

As for the past weekend, I’ve spent some time sewing these up: (note: photo taken from craft passion)

Found the pattern and tutorial over Pinterest (yes, very useful boards). It is available at craft passion.

 

This is what I came up with.. I must admit, I’m not expert in sewing up the zipper.. not yet..

 

 

 

The green pattern pouch has been adopted by a dear friend, hope it comes in handy for her.

 

Overall, I’m glad that I am able to sew up this card zipper pouches and it is a great gift for friends, aren’t they?

 

Other than the card zipper pouch, found this wallet tutorial over at Burda Style which I’ve altered into a smaller wallet.

 

Well, I’ve given myself too much of a seam allowance and the wallet turn out to be a bit bigger than normal fold up wallet. Anyhow, I like the combination of the fabric pattern, it looks fun to me.

 

Hope you have a happy week ahead.

Hello there.. how was your week going?

Found this pin in Pinterest with tutorial, so grateful for that, ‘cos I’ve been wanting to get a luggage tag, an interesting one for my luggage whenever I wanted to travel.

The tutorial is available here.

The tutorial is very clear and with measurement, which is just great for novice like me.

I’ve made two straight off from the tutorial! The first one was the exact copy from the tutorial but since my sewing machine doesn’t have the button function, I had to sew it by hand. And… it is not neat, so I’ve made one for myself with a string as the loop holder.

Left side was by hand-sew the button-hole and right side is using a string.

 

Here you can see a bit of the inside fabric. This is well-loved by my son now.

 

This one is for myself and it is using a string to hold the lope.

 

This is how it looks like with a card inserted.

 

Here is how the string finished look. I’ve made a knot before attaching it to the tag, so that it is more secure.

 

Well, I’m surely going to use this tag on my next trip for my luggage.  “.” v

 

Happy pinning and sewing  you all. And have a great week ahead.

Hello for a new week.

Have been pinning recently and have searched for fabric over the net as I’ve mentioned in my previous post. So here is what I’ve done with the fabric and also one that is in my stash.

First I found a nice pin in the Pinterest board which brought me to Eat Craft Sow page with the pattern and tutorial.

I found the idea of bringing my hand-phone and card useful whenever I wanted to step out from my office for a while which I gonna need my hand-phone and the staff card for access to other levels.

And since I can’t wait to do something with my newly received fabric, I’ve started sewing.

Here is the first one which turn out to be a bit too tight with my Samsung S3 which I have a bulky casing. So I’ve made another one with the newly brought fabric. I also wanted to be sure that I’m able to make the pouch fully then only to use my new fabric which came in quite a small size.

So, here they are:

 

It is a pain having to sew thick and hard lining plus flip it over, especially hard for my sewing machine to go through the thick layer of fabric, so I have to make it slow and careful so that it sewing in straight lines. As for the part of the edges, I need to pound it with my craft hammer.

I like it ‘cos it has a handle for my to hang on to my hand while I can hold other things with my both hands.

I’m planning to sew more with the fabric that I have now.

 

So, what do you think? Good enough?

Do you buy fabric over the net?

 

I’m pretty excited with what’s came in the mail today – something from CottonTouch that I’ve bought two weeks ago.

First time that I’m seeing fabric such as this one – having 6 different patterns printed together into a large fabric.

 

Yay!

Now I’m overwhelm with all the ideas on what I could do with that piece of 6 patterns fabric…

note: photos from CottonTouch

 

Love the feel of the fabric, they are actually from Nesshome, made in Korea. Pretty excited about this info too. So I’ve made a search over the net and it landed me in some Zakka’s site with more cute images and ideas!

Zakka is actually refers to everything and anything that improves your home, life and appearance (from Wikipedia).

It is filled up with great ideas in home improvement in terms of hand-sewing simple stuff that made a home feel more homely, which is basically what I love to do – making stuff that is useful.

 

I’ve also bought a few of the metal clip frame which I wanted to try out in making coin pouch.

note: photos from CottonTouch

 

I just hope I won’t mess up the fabric. Wish me luck.

 

On another thought, I’m hoping to get cheaper stuff online, especially fabric and craft tools. Any suggestion?

After a few search, I got to MayMayShop which is Malaysia base and the Zakka fabric is selling in a much lower price, actually half the price from Etsy shop!

It even show photos of fabric ideas which really help in deciding which fabric to go for.

They even carry Emily Nature fabric, ‘cos I’ve bought a book on how to use this fabric from the local bookstore recently and have been wondering how to get such type of fabric here.

 

note: photo from MayMayShop

 

I just hope they have other series instead of the purple series which is the only one available now.

I’m now building my wish list over at MayMayShop  ^.^

Do check them out for some cute fun fabric and they carry some bag making tools too.

 

Happy sewing!

“Mommy!! How many bags you wanna buy!? You’ve got several at home already!!”

LOL.. that was the respond from my 9-year-old when I said I want to look for bag while we were in Hong Kong.

When I told my sis, she said I should tell him “Mommy is a girl, a girl should have lots of bags..”

TRUE!!

Bags oh bags, how could a lady live without thee!

Haha.. till now I’m still looking for my perfect bag for that perfect occasion, one that at times can fit in everything that I need, another for just those time where I am wearing my red shoes, one with my casual weekend wear, one for work, one with a serious color, one which I can put over the shoulder, one that I could just carry on my hand, oh and one that is just nice for dinner, not forgetting one for my little black dress.

Now… how many would that be?!

Just one fit all!?

No way!

I mean how could you bring a bag for work and you bring that for a sofisticated dinner!? That doesn’t fit, doesn’t it?

So handbags at wholesale could really do no harm on my wallet.

Oh ya.. what about that Coach or Prada or Gucci or LV!?