The job gives us one bag on hire and I usually ask for and receive another each year (though they will let you "buy" them with your special "bucks" you earn for picking up extra shifts). The bag is designed rather nicely for what we need it for, but the fabrics are cheap and mine starts falling apart in the first 3 months. By 9 months or so, it's usually pretty shot.
My current one isn't quite this bad yet, but getting there. I had saved the last 2 previous, thinking I'd use one for a pattern, and that I should get the zippers off the other. There are quite a few zippers and most of them are in very good condition yet. I ripped one bag down to be able to trace a pattern most easily from the sections and take any hardware I wanted along the way. Having the second still together was a bonus for looking at after I had cut out my pieces. It helped me figure out the best sequence to put the new one together. I also needed one more zipper than just one bag could provide.
I'm using my new-to-me singer 15-91 and free motioned the embroidery. So it's not perfect, but obviously personally made, I'm pleased enough with it. I was tempted to go with more and a little more, but there's a lot more to do with the bag and this is just a prototype. If it goes well enough I may do another and let myself play more. Or, before this gets attached to the backside of the pocket it might fall under the darning foot again. The yellow peeping out by the zipper is some home made bias from the same fabric I'm using for lining, some cute bees. Top stitching is done with some cranberry jeans topstitching thread I got from Taylor Taylor a while back, and a size 18 needle.
FLASH photography because that's what you use at 2 am. I was happy to revisit one of my favorite marking tools, soap. I haven't used it for a while so there wasn't a little sliver in the top sewing drawer and I had to use an unopened hotel bar. Usually the lines are not so thick. Still, so easy to remove, and much easier to see on this fabric than anything else I have, including the frixion pens. The ball point pins up in the corner were just waiting to go into a drawer for a knit sewing day, I have only sharp pins in the pin cushion.
I had to break on the periwinkle quilt a little as I ran out of the pool green background fabric. I ordered more and it's been washed and is ready for iron and starch. I've just bought a June Taylor "special shapes" ruler and I'm looking forward to seeing if it makes cutting strips as painless as they made it look. No picture of that, if you wonder what I'm talking about there you can google it (or you tube, they have a lovely video that was probably the hook that got me) or come back here in a week or so to see if I wrote an exciting review on THAT.
No sewing of Christmas Jammies this year. Let them learn to sew if they want them! I would be happy to give lessons. Actually, I'd love to teach beginner sewing. One day, maybe.
What's on my audio books this week? The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser- good non fiction about the personalization of your news (and pretty much everything) feed by Google and Facebook, I'm sure you tube is on the list or should be. And, Spring Chicken, Bill Gifford- another non fiction about anti aging I think. I haven't delved into it yet. Not as good as Rick Bragg's stories of the south that I just finished, but some interesting fodder.
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