Monday, August 10, 2009

Wristlet

I went to the library the other week and picked up a few sewing books. (Yes, you may call me a dork.) Most of the sewing books at the library are pretty outdated, but I guess sewing techniques never go out of style. One of the books I picked up was called "Bag Bazaar." There were a couple of cute patterns in this book. Here is one of them that I made last week:



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One of the things I need to work on is being more careful when I make patterns. I am always just so anxious to get the actual sewing part started that I rush through cutting out the pattern, and I don't double check my measurements, etc. Tisk tisk on me.




The irony is that if you rush through the pattern making/measurements, you'll spend a LOT more time trying to fix it all later than you will on the front end. That's what happened with this bag. You'd think I would have learned that lesson by now. Humph.

Next time I will do better. I promise.

Oh, and I forgot to mention in my last post one other thing that makes me happy. Scroll up. All the way to the top. See my followers? 8! Eight! Wahoo! And I think only one of them is related to me :) That makes me happy, and so do your comments, so keep 'em coming dear bloggy friends.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

that is cute.
i have nothing else to say.
i'm a slug today

Valerie said...

that is very cute. I used an outdated book to make my curtains, but with modern fabric and a little streamlining they look great.

And yea for readers. It will grow even more I promise. Are you part of 20 something bloggers? there's a couple groups for comments :)

Lula! said...

Sigh...
Why can't I sew?

Oh yes, because I don't have the patience. That's it.