This post originally appeared on The Dropped Thread on 5/18/13. It has been moved to this blog by the owner.
Gosh, its been a long time since I posted. Once again I've been busy sewing away. I hope you guys had a good Mother's Day, whether you are a mother or not. There should be a Celebrate Women and All We Do Day. That could cover all we do whether we are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives or girlfriends, employees, bosses, etc. We.Do.A.Lot!
Here's some of what I've been doing:
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Christmas Gift Bag - Butterick B3485 |
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Christmas Gift Bag - Butterick B3485 |
These bag were both in my UFO pile. I finished them up and now have two reusable Christmas Gift Bags. They hold a pretty good amount and are closed securely using two plastic spring-loaded do-hickeys. I can't remember the correct name for it right now, but if I remember I'll add it to this post later.
The fabrics were random Christmas-y fabrics from my horde. The pattern is several years old -
Butterick B3485 (Making History). It is based on a Renaissance pattern. I wouldn't recommend sewing very many of these bags because each one has 20 buttonholes! I used to have a home-based business making these in novelty fabrics for sale as dice bags. They were very popular with the tabletop & D20 gaming community because they hold a tremendous amount of loose dice without any falling out. But after I made +200 the buttonhole mechanism on my Singer sewing machine broke and never worked right again, even with repairing it twice.