Jan 22
2015
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I did some sewing this week. With Maisie's help of course. She likes to sit on my lap at the sewing table and help me remove pins. I showed her how to use the remote for the camera and she snapped these pictures of the two of us. They're much better than the ones I got. The sewing was a project bag for some of my knitting. Ollie loves to eat both yarn and knitwear so I can't just plop something in a basket to put it away and I wanted something prettier than my usual ziplock bag. I followed this tutorial for how to do the zipper and I really like the way it looks. So polished. Unfortunately, while I was using the zipper foot for my machine Maisie dropped the regular foot on the floor and we're not sure where it's gone. I finished sewing my bag (and the matching notions pouch) with a satin-stitch foot.
My bag is really just a simple pouch with boxed corners to help it stand up on its own. The fabric was a Christmas present from Rob that I've been saving for something fun. In the middle of winter these bright juicy colours are just what I need. The bottom of the bag is 5" wide and 10" long. Carefully measuring of my yarn stash determined that these dimensions would comfortably hold most skeins or balls without resulting in an enormous bag. I stuck a couple of my labels on the bags just for fun. I hardly ever remember to use them.
As soon as I was finished my bag I popped my Apricot sweater project into it (a major improvement on the disintegrating paper bag it had being living in before) and plunked myself down on the couch to do some knitting and drink some tea. Shortly after that I realized I had no idea where my printout of the pattern had gone. I still had a copy on my computer so I was able to look up the numbers I need right now. Hopefully there were no really important notes written on the printout. The sun came into the living room for a few minutes while I was sitting there. It's back for a little longer every day now and I can already feel that little jolt of springtime excitement. Only two more months of cold weather to go!