Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches – Page 13

Back! Life has a way of piling one thing after another around here! New pets, family, home repairs – the unplanned kind, wholesale orders, customer orders…ah the usual! : ) Now back to blogging! I’ll be mixing it up with art, paintings, sewing, and my photography.

I wanted to share this awesome fabric I found this summer:It is a soft suede cloth cheetah print. It has a richness of browns and caramel tans as well as being soft. Suede cloth is a synthetic fabric that has a velvet-like nap finish and an easy care fabric. I enjoy sewing with it and love the way it looks in a finished item.

To make it more fun, animal prints are big in this season’s fashion and accessories. I’ve been using this fabric in local sewing, as well as in my Etsy shop. It’s been a big hit sewn as smartphone wristlets locally at Nich. I have used it for some items in my shop with more to come.

August 9, 2012

Kathy

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Local news: Cellphone wristlets at Nich

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I’ve been working on a local order. It’s been great fun to work with the shop owner and customize the design to fit her customers needs.

Aren’t they fun ?! I love all the colors and fabric of these cell phone wristlets and coin purse wristlets. The colorful zippers and surprise inside fabric colors add to the fun of these wristlets. Each has a transparent vinyl exterior pocket for a college id or license. I delivered the first order last week with more to come.

You can find these at Nich in downtown West Chester, PA. Owner Kristy is so nice and her shop is a funky urban edge women’s clothing boutique. She has an active fan club of followers on Nich facebook page as well as on Pinterest. If you are in the area, it’s worth the trip to stop in and check out her wonderful boutique.

July 11, 2012

Kathy

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Sewing with Vinyl

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I am up to my eyeballs with a large local sewing order. It’s great fun meeting someone new and working together to tweak some of my sewing designs to meet their needs. I find design tweaking absorbing and time consuming. I always learn something new.

One of the tweaks is adding a vinyl pocket on to a cell phone clutch. I’ve never used vinyl before and it is kind cool to work with. A trip to JoAnne’s to check out vinyl, I found that the lower the gauge the thinner the vinyl is. I have opted to work with an 18 gauge vinyl for sturdiness.

Source: onlinefabricstore.net via Bordando on Pinterest

Vinyl wants to stick to your machine when sewing. I found that there are a lot sewing blogs that suggest adding scotch tape to the bottom of your sewing foot. I tried it and it works great! Adding a small strip on either side of the needle plate, under the foot helped too. It glides right through when sewing. Futuregirl.com has great photos and instructions

Source: futuregirl.com via Cindy on Pinterest

Another tip from byannie.com is to keep the tissue paper that comes with a roll of vinyl with the piece of vinyl you are working on. Seems obvious ….. now. Those edges of the vinyl are really hard to see and the tissue paper helps a lot.

I’ll definitely be experimenting with vinyl in the future. but for today, vinyl playtime is over and it’s time to work on the order and also finish up a painting that is almost done. Enjoy your day !

May 18, 2012

Kathy

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Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 2 Finished

Posted in Peeking Behind the Easel, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

It's finished! What fun this quilt was! Take a look and see what you think : )

My favorite parts are the painted clematis and the quilting. I used a heat sensitive pen to sketch out the clematis across the purple and white blocks to use as a guide for the quilting on the side panels.

I'm ready to start the next one! You can find this quilt later this morning at my SibStudioSewing shop at Etsy

May 16, 2012

Kathy

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Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 1

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I rarely used a pattern when creating a quilt. I usually have an imagine in mind and the trick is figure out how to make the imagine a reality. If I am designing something way out of the box, I use the tracing paper sheets taped together to draw out the actual quilt and proceed to make the pattern pieces. In the case of this quilt, graph paper worked just fine to draw out my design.

The little notebook on the right has the quilt idea that I am working on. I sketch out sewing ideas the same way I do for painting ideas. The graph paper has the nuts & bolts measurements and design for this quilt.

I wanted the quilt to be a vertical rectangle with a center panel of painted flowers. The sides will be narrow strips that picked up the colors of the flowers. The main color will be white to give the over all quilt a fresh, bright, contemporary look. I have finished the center strip of painted flowers.

I used photos of clematis taken in the yard as my reference. Stay tuned to see the finished quilt – it is almost finished!

Category: Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

Cheetah Suede Cloth

Local news: Cellphone wristlets at Nich

Sewing with Vinyl

Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 2 Finished

Purple Clematis Wall Hanging, Part 1