Hello everyone!! I have a special guest today on my blog! Let me introduce my daughter, the sewer to you!
She is here today celebrating National Sewing Month 2017!!
My daughter fell in love with sewing some years ago. She was home one day bored and asked if she could learn how to sew. I wondered were that came from but quickly found a sewing class for her.
She went to her first class twice a week after school. The classes were pretty full. 15 students to 1 teacher. She learned the basics: how to use the machine, all of the different fabric names and how to do a basic stitch. She created one pillow but nothing else. So she left that school and we searched for another one.
She attended the Pinner’s Conference in Atlanta back in April of this year and took 8 sewing classes and quickly fell in love again. So much so we bought the machine she used during the conference.
We arrived back home found a sewing school and she has been on the go ever since. She decided that she wanted to start her own business. In her own words, “Mom, I want to create things that people will see all over the world”!
Totally awesome! So she went to work!
Let’s take a look at what she created:
She had so much fun creating her first soft pencil case. This was the first time she add a zipper to a project.
She used a new product to her called Therm·O·Web HeatnBond Lite to bond both fabrics without the extra weight or stiffness. She liked working with this product because it was easy to use and it was sewable.
Let’s Look Inside:
She uses this pencil case in school. Her friends asked her where did she get it from. When she tells them she made it herself, they are blown away. Now they all want one. She is please to make one for them.
Here’s how she create this bag:
- She cut two pieces of Waverly Cotton Fat Quarter fabrics and one piece of HeatnBond to 11 x5.5.
- She placed the outside fabric down right side up.
- Then she placed the zipper down, zipper side down against the fabric and sew them together.
- Then she placed the lining fabric right side down and placed the HeatnBond down on top of it.
- Using the iron, she fused the HeatnBond to the lining fabric.
- After that she sewed the lining to the zipper and the outside fabric.
- Once one side of the zipper was sewed, she did the other side.
- Now it time to complete the bag and sew the outside edges. Before doing that, remember to pull the zipper to the middle so you can open the bag and flip it inside out.
- Box the corners and cut off the extra fabric.
Nice and easy.
My daughter did an amazing job and I can’t wait to see what she creates next!!
Wait Before You Go:
Therm·O·Web is having a sale. It ends in two days, so hurry and pick up some of your favorite sewing goodies.
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Thank you so much for stopping by!!
Kreative Kymona 