I’ve taken my traditional week after Christmas off, and the weather is just plain dreary, so I’ve been catching up on work around the house.  I have not actually taken my sewing machine out since we moved to the new house (so yes, that would be three years).  I had a small list of things to […]

In the course of Christmas shopping, I managed to find my niece’s next birthday present.   (Yep, that’s in August.   I’m way ahead.)     Here’s a bag in which to contain it.

I went as far as I could with the tee shirt muslin.     It was mostly a success.    I’ve verified that the pattern fit, and I identified a few things I could do at set up to make it easier to put together going forward. I do have to revisit hemming.    There

  I had made a bag to go with my coworker Mary’s Evenstar shawl, which ended up being the perfect size to fit the family silver vase she was giving to his son and soon to be wife for their wedding.     Since I’ve been experimenting with bag design, I told her I’d be

Here’s the gift bag I made to go with the sweater and hat. Still a work in progress with getting a ribbon sleeve that I like.   I at least hemmed this one a little better, but a way to completely hem it only occurred to me after I had it totally sewn.     So the next

So I knew I needed to make a gift bag for Mary’s shawl, and I also had the baby quilt that I finished a while ago kicking around without a gift bag.     It being the last day of a random four day weekend, I decided to tackle that today.   (I had the shawl up on

It’s another snowy day, and I still had fabric sitting on top of my sewing kit for potential projects I’d mapped out back in December.     So to gift bag sewing I went.     I’ve done enough of these recently that I winged the cutting on these.     And I gusseted some,