I've been intending to blog about stuff I make alongside my gardening blog but as I haven't made anything for sometime there wasn't anything to say. Until now.....
My youngest is on camp and my oldest is spending afternoons at tennis camp so I have a couple of hours to myself. I love my kids but it was bliss.
I had this Martha Stewart sewing book for Christmas and had seen the pillowcase bag, which looked about my ability level. Fast forward 8 months and I finally get around to doing something about it.
Instructions really aren't my thing at all but even I thought this was doable. Just a case of cutting off the closed end, cutting the pillowcase in half and hemming the cut sides. Then put one side inside the other, sew the sides and then turn inside out and sew the bottom.
I think what also appealed to me about this project was the fact that it could be done on the cheap. Due to our poor taste in soft furnishings, we do not possess a pillowcase that inpsired me one bit. Thankfully I was in House of Fraser, looking in the sales when I spotted the bedding stuff was hugely reduce. So I grabbed a few pillowcases, I figured if it all went horribly wrong it was no big loss.
Now, I had bought this rotary cutter months ago and I finally used it today. Makes cutting out so easy.
My sewing machine, cheap, seemed like a bargain at the time, very difficult to use. Makes seams a bit wonky no matter how hard I try.
The finished result.
Only took an hour and a half from start to finish.
Just hoping this is the start of a bout of crafting.
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