Category Archives: sewing

Reusable Grocery Bag

Every­body is doing it. Even here in the “bub­ble.” Using those ugly green reusable gro­cery bags. Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 0. I won’t even men­tion what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck! I made this one yes­ter­day. Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 6. Maybe. It’s still bet­ter than some vague­ly poly­ester green … 

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Sewing — Pink Boucle Purse

My first exper­i­ment in build­ing a struc­tured purse. I used the Dorothy/Evelyn pat­tern from Emma Bren­nan’s Mak­ing Vin­tage Bags. Charm­ing bags and good instruc­tions — a love­ly book. The pink boucle fab­ric jumped off the shelf at me in JoAn­n’s one after­noon. It seemed like some­thing that should be made into a Chanel jack­et but I can’t wear that … 

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Pellon (sewing products) is not well served by it’s web presence.

BTW find­ing on-line infor­ma­tion for Pel­lon sewing prod­ucts is dif­fi­cult. When I was work­ing on the pre­vi­ous post I want­ed to put in a link to the prod­uct page for the inter­fac­ing that I was talk­ing about. Clar­i­ty and all that… Not so easy it turns out. www​.pel​lon​.com is the home page of Finnish com­pa­ny that produces … 

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