Purse Details: A cool Bucket Bag

Fabric 'sandwich' consisting of woven brown fabric with an iron on interfacing, a light batting, and a muslin backing. And various ribbons stitched across the fabric. The lining is a peach satin from one of my grandmothers stashes.

Close up of the ribbon detail

Fabric 'sandwich' all trimmed and squared up

Purse sewn together

inside of the bucket bag

Attachments for ring tabs for the handle

Snap tabs (next time I will add an additional snap for further adjustability)

Snap detail

View with the lining in

Zipper pocket detail

The final product, with a chain handle.

A very fun project!

Been so very busy!

I know I have not posted in a while! Not because I have not been working on stuff in my sewing room, because I have been!! Well, I have been but just not as quickly as usual. I had some 'stuff' crop up in my life that needed tending. We all know how that goes!

Life has settled back down, somewhat, and I have been able to get back into my sewing room for longer than 10 minutes here and there! YAY!

I have finished several projects over the past couple of weeks:

A pair of knit pants and short sleeved shirt in brown

A cardigan in light teal with the band and tie in the dark teal

A purse to tie all the pieces together...

(I think 7 or 8 in all. I promise to take pics of me modeling all the pieces of the wardrobe sometime this week or next weekend.)

And a polo shirt re-make

Brown knit shirt, pants and cardigan

With the cardigan tied

And with the purse.

The Polo shirt re-make

Before (see the big smudge stain...)

The after...

Hard to see in the pics. I removed the entire shirt from 2 inches below the armholes and then cut out the stain a removed about 9 inches from the circumference and 2 from the length plus made the armholes a little smaller and then re-sewed it back together.

Enjoy the pictures!

Oh Sheetz!!

I couldn't help myself with the title! hehe

I was lying in bed the other night feeling a little miffed. My 2 favorite sets of fitted bed sheets just won't stay on the bed anymore and the extra 'cheap' set that I put on the bed just felt uncomfortable.

My hubby thinks me to be a bit crazy when I made this observation out loud to him. I asked him if the sheets where uncomfortable to him as well, and I just got a look.

So, I started thinking about it. My 2 favorite sets are 100% cotton with a very high thread count that I undoubtedly bought on super duper sale or I would not have gotten them! My extra 'cheap' set is from wal-mart or some similar place and while it fits the mattress and never even moves, is a poly-cotton blend, and if I dare say is a bit like sleeping on heat reflecting cardboard. YUCKY.

I know, I know... maybe I am being a bit prissy here.

SO to solve my dilemma of my nice sheets that keep falling off the bed and never stay in place and wind up wrapped around my dear hubby instead of under him, I added 10inch pieces of 2 inch wide elastic to all four corners. And I am hoping this does the trick to keep them firmly in place. If not... I was thinking that I could also maybe add some velcro tabs to about midway down the long side to tuck in and velcro to under the mattress. I will wait and play that one by ear.

wide elastic sewn to the corners of my favorite fitted sheet.

On another note... I have been working on another project to complete my 'ensemble'. However, right in the middle of it my serger decided to misbehave and started eating my fabric instead of nicely trimming it. So off it went to the local Sew and Vac shop to have the knives sharpened and a general tune up as well. 79.95$ later and it is back in my sewing room and ready to finish up the last of the 'ensemble' project. Just a hint the last 3 pieces are a knit pant, short sleeved top and a cardigan.

I am also toying with the idea of making a handbag to go with it as well.

I will post the pictures as soon as I am done with them!