Swap - What I Made

As per usual I left my swap item til the last minute, which coincidentally was the same time as I started to experience my first ever bout of morning sickness - blergh! What's with that...third time lucky??

So I wasn't too keen to make a start on my swap piece and admittedly it became a little rushed towards the end but I hear that my swap partner was happy to receive a bag for her hand sewing and has been using it. I put some goodies in the bag too, a quick unpick, some thread cutters, hem gauge thingymajig, folding scissors and a needle nest (a magnetic case for her needles) hopefully things she can keep in the bag for her hand sewing.

My partner requested modern country/romantic fabric which threw me a little and this is what I ended up with (after a million fabric changes, even whilst halfway through making the bag. I hate being so indecisive.)









*I have just noticed that these pics are before the bag went through the machine so there were no pen lines on the bag when I sent it off!*

I used this tute here, how beautiful is the Hushabye fabric range!

The tute says to sew 3 pockets into the outside part and after doing that on 1 side I decided to only do 2 pockets on the other side because they were so small I could hardly get my hand into them.

2 comments:

  1. You have done a beautiful job Vik, I love this bag. I bet the quilted effect made it feel just beautiful! No doubt it was hard to part with (or did you whip one up for yourself as well?) Lucky recipient!!

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  2. AAhhh, now I know who made it for me! I know I haven't blogged it yet, but I wanted you to know I use, I love it and I feel really spoilt!! My fave bit is the magnetic pin holder, I rambled to Emma about it as I've NEVER seen one, that made my day!!!

    Thank you, I'm truly truly in love with it :D

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