Runaway October

(As always, click for big­ger pictures.)

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I used a pat­tern from Hip Hand­bags and love the way it turned out. I’ll def­i­nitely be using the pat­tern over again, as both my mom and myself really liked the size and shape.

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Only prob­lem is that it’s more of a medium purse than a mar­ket tote.

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I went ahead and put a reg­u­lar dou­ble welt pocket in it any­way, using match­ing pip­ing from the out­side. The lin­ing is the Sage Kleo from Alexan­der Henry’s Fash­ion­ista line that I am totally in love with.

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I totally love the way it came out, but I real­ized I could really use one of those itty bitty mini irons. I just could not get the wrin­kles out of the bot­tom cor­ners. It got pretty man­gled try­ing to sew the bot­tom on. Appar­ently my machine does not like tight cor­ners when using buck­ram and heavy inter­fac­ing. Who knew?

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I hope you enjoy Eliz­a­beth. I’ll get it in the mail as soon as I have some­one to watch the kids!

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On another note, here’s the iron­ing board cover I did recently. Cute, no?

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I really need to work on tak­ing pic­tures indoors. Sum­mer sun is just too harsh to take stills outside.

• Hip­pos! Yay! My Grandma sent me this adorable fam­ily of hip­pos as a Mother’s Day present. Aren’t they cute? Now I just need to find a home for the rest of my hippos.

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• My abil­ity to suc­cess­fully com­plete a dou­ble welt pocket, as demon­strated here:

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• I received my Spoon­flower Beta invi­ta­tion! I am so excited to try and get some­thing of my own printed. I am think­ing I’d like to do some logos and what not to stitch onto my com­pleted projects. Heaven for­bid some­one come across one of my aprons when I’m dead and gone and not know who made it. That would be a shame. Plus, I’m really get­ting to the point where I’d like to start get­ting some stuff done for my Etsy shop. I really like to have things tagged and labeled. It seems to up the pro­fes­sion­al­ity, ya know?  My biggest con­cern with pre­mak­ing things to put in a shop is what if it doesn’t sell and it just sits there? Espe­cially if it’s girl clothes — I have no use for those unfortunately.
• I also got my Rav­elry invite, but it’ll be awhile before I actu­ally get any­thing going in there.
• I’m excited to get started on the Mar­ket Tote Swap. No last min­utes for me this time. I’m get­ting it done and out of here. I need to make some stuff for myself for a change.
• I thought I had more than that but I guess not. I’ve got a big post in the works on sewing FAQS and another on ‘Pretty vs Func­tional’. Maybe you guys can weigh in with me and con­vince Matt that I need to have free dec­o­rat­ing reign on the ENTIRE house.

Stay tuned my won­der­ful read­ers. Same blog time, Same blog channel.