Thursday, June 13, 2013

Homemade Taggie

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I decided to make a taggie for Penelope as she is obsessed with labels at the moment. She spends ages fiddling with them and sucking them.

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Luckily I have a huge ribbon collection. I always save it off presents and buy it when I see it going cheap. My big love is neon ribbon which Paperchase often sell. Of course my first attempt shown above meant I sewed all the labels on the inside. I had to pick the whole thing apart and start again.

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But I was pretty pleased with the end result. It's 7" which is just the right size!

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Som details, including a few nametapes

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Saturday, June 08, 2013

Sewing Machine Cover

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I decided to make a sewing machine cover at long last. I really had no idea how to make one. I seem to draw a blank when I think of anything which isn't a flat object. Suddenly it seemed to involve dressmaking techniques which is not really my thing. But I thought I would just start at the beginning and give it a go. I knew I wanted to try my hand at piping as I have been thinking about making some cushions so I thought this could be a test. I bought this bundle of fat quarters with this project in mind so I just had to buy some bias binding for the piping cord.

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My problem was that I always keep the table extension connected these days so the cover couldn't go all the way to the bottom of the machine. I debated making something with flaps and big covers to go over the plastic but it all started to get too complicated in my head.

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The piping cord was the biggest challenge. I did it really badly. I need to read up exactly how to do it. You can't notice it at a distance but up close you can see that it's not as tight to the edge as it should be.

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I also made quite a few mistakes sewing the cord, until I realised there is a special foot for it! D'oh! Once I started using that it was a hole heap easier. I enjoyed learning something new though and I find I have an affection for these experimental learning projects. I totally missed out the quilting bit though so the whole thing is a bit baggy. It does the job though.

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