So, if you know anything about me, it's that I like to do some crafty shit. What you may not know is that I'm not particularly skilled in it, despite how much of it I do.. .Haha. Specifically, sewing. I'm an awful seamstress. I'm working on getting better, though! So, in my boredom yesterday morning, I was parusing through Instructables (best site EVAR) and was looking at all kinds of random things until I came across a whole bunch of sewing tutorials. I pinned a few, and today, out of boredom and necessity I decided to enact my New Year's Resolution!! I picked an item off one of the boards and made it! I'm still trying to figure out how to log them, maybe I can move them from one board to another and make another board of projects I've completed... either way, I'll figure it out. But here goes!
I used some fabric that turned out to be too thick for bows and a zipper
I found in some plastic I bought from the thrift store at some point or
other. I should go back there. I had like, probably five or six
choices in zippers, but went with the second longest one for
durability.
Here's the Instructable I used. And here's my result!! Not too shabby, right?? :D
There are only a few things I was unsure about. I looked up a few different ways to put in the zipper, as the tutorial wasn't really clear on how to do it exactly, for one who's never done it before. I figured it out pretty easily, though, went with the exposed zipper look for ease and preference. I like to see that it's closed, I guess, haha. And the rest of it was pretty easy. I had a few problems with the machine itself, as it was unfortunately having some issues for whatever reason with the thread I was using. I think it was thicker than I normally use, or it was losing stuff inside the machine, because it kept getting stuck, especially on the back stitch. There's really only one or two spots where it's a little funky, but otherwise, I'm really quite happy with it. I want to practice a little more with sewing before I start doing anything bigger, but considering I can probably make tons of these little bags for not more than two bucks, I don't see why not! :) I still have a bit of extra fabric and a tiny zipper left for another matching pouch to go with this one. I might attempt that one tomorrow :)
My blogging will become more frequent and more imaginative in the coming months, I promise! :D I'm starting to find my crafting to be more lucrative than I originally thought, and I'm really excited to get to work on this blanket I told you about already :)
