It’s Saturday and not Sunday and I already made something with the stash in this post, but anyway here we go. Both fabrics are from Ikea, the blue one is a home decor fabric and the pink is actually a bed sheet. I liked the pattern and thought it would probably look nice as a skirt.

I never came around making the skirt, but I made a bag out of it. It’s called “Charming Handbag” and the pattern is from Bend the Rules Sewing.  The pattern is a classic handbag, but since I like to carry my bags over my shoulder, I enlarged the pattern a bit and made the handles longer. I used two kinds of fabric instead of one for the outside of the bag and added a inside zipper pocket. 

I also used these fabrics with my Skull Clutch, and the A Girl’s Best Friend Wallet, but since these projects are soooo small I think it doesn’t count :)

Like the pattern? Check out what other crafters did with it: Charming Handbag on flickr

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Christmas is coming, and not only Christmas but birthdays too, so this will be the first one of a few post about presents I will make. Unfortunately I’ll probably have to post most of it after Christmas, because otherwise I would ruin the surprise :) 

Since this wallet is a for a friend of mine who probably won’t read this blog (keeping fingers crossed) I thought I’ll share it with you. 

The pattern is called A Girl’s Best Friend Wallet from jennalou06.

The good: Very good instructions and pictures and an overall good layout 

The bad: You can see the interfacing and the backside of the fabric inside the zippered pocket. I fixed this using Steam-a-Seam and another layer of fabric instead of interfacing for the zipper pocket. 

The ugly: My sewing skills *sigh* I’m not really happy how it turned out, and I don’t blame the pattern. Somehow everything that is smaller than a normal bag looks wonky. I really have to practice. 

I hope she’ll like it, if not I’ll add a giftcard for another one, and a cupcake :)

I love Etsy! And I love PDF patterns! It’s instant gratification. I bought this pattern and lucky me I found a zipper at home so I could make this really cute pouch. I don’t know why this pattern is called clutch because in my opinion it’s definitely a pouch. Anyhow, it’s great for carrying my make-up around (read: three lipsticks, powder, lip balm, hairpins, lighter, cellphone) instead of just tossing everything in my bag.

It’s actually not as quick as the name suggests but it’s a lot of fun and I definitely learned some new tricks I can use in future projects. I’m still trying to figure out how to make a pattern on my own using pleats, so if anyone has a tip let me know.

Before I ordered my sewing machine I was browsing the web for some patterns and found this one.

It looked like the perfect first project….boy was I wrong. I haven’t sewed anything for 12 years and I never read sewing instructions or a pattern, and it didn’t help that they were in English. I probably read through the whole thing about 30 times and I still managed to screw up. I sewed the lining in wrong side facing up, the inner pocket is far to small and you can see the raw edge of the red top part (still haven’t figured out why), and the pleats drove me crazy! (And you can’t even see them in the photo, sigh.)

Anyway, I learned a lot and the second time I did this bag for a friend it only took me 4 hours.

I used some Ikea fabric for the bottom part and some red denim-like fabric for the top and handle lining. For the interfacing I used Freudenberg S320 which is pretty stiff so it gives the bag some sturdiness. Overall it’s a really nice bag and a great size for the everyday stuff I carry around which is quite a lot. If you like this bag check out the flickr group for more pictures from the same pattern.