I was bored

The other day my Dad borrowed my laptop to do my sister’s and my mom’s taxes (which reminds me I need to find where my W2 is). Well I needed to do something because I wasn’t sleepy so I couldn’t just take a nap. I didn’t feel like re-reading the limited books I have here. And nothing was on T.V. After about thirty minutes of starring into the void of space, I decided that wasn’t gonna do it. So I shuffled upstairs and started looking around for a random book to occupy my time. And guess what I came across, that little pink sewing machine I bought a year ago. I totally had forgotten about it.

Here’s a pic to remind you of it:

And that remind me of all the fabric that I had bought at random times of that year…

And my head started thinking…hmm…The other thing was I still didn’t know how to sew…plus a lot of the sewing tool thingys were missing thanks to my brother and is asinine need to mess with other peoples stuff. AND I only had a half a yard of each fabric, not much to work with. So I sat there for another hour and half starring into the void of space again. Well then my Dad finished with my laptop so I did a quick search for beginners’ projects. And came up with some good ones, one I don’t have enough fabric for (1/2 yard short) and the other I need a few more inches of at least two of them, plus something called interface, bias tape among other things (missing my seam ripper). Well I did find a tute for a simple fabric wallet that didn’t call for much fabric. So I tried it and it came out horrible. Why? I didn’t measure it right, I didn’t have a ruler so I used one of my tape measures ( I have three of those for some reason). Then I forgot to put in the lining fabric. But then my sister brought over her full size machine that she gave to me, cause she too hadn’t used hers for over a year. Well I tried it again…and again it was horrible…but this time I figured out how to re thread the machine all by my lonesome…and Jess can confessed to how I bulked at doing that on her machine. And I even did the bobbin thingy by myself. Well around 3 something in the morning I was still hacking away at the machine…and I came up with I was just gonna sew stuffs…so I made a bag out of some scrap material and a old night shirt I had that had shrunk in the machine a year or so ago. Here’s a pic or two..

it’s blurry cause I took it with my phone and the kitchen part I was in has those halogen lights…hard and harsh. Well it took me three hours and I was so (semi) proud of it. The straps came from a pink terry robe that I don’t use cause it’s too short. Well then I decided to use the rest of the pink fabric cause I used most of it on the wallet…and some blue silky fabric scraps had in a box and came up with this…

Here’s a close up..

I have the rest of my fabric samples inside…what you can’t see on this blurry pic is that the blue fabric is the wrong side…I got confused around 7 in the morning. On the other side the top part where the pink and the blue come together I sewed it the wrong way so the edges can be seen. The blue fabric was very hard to work with, cause it’s satin-silk type and it wanted to slip and slide the whole time. I also think the tension was to high cause you can see it puckering and what not (I learned that from Project Runway.)

I’m going to try and do some more sewing…I have a project I want to do for my cousin, his baby-mama-to-be is having her baby shower next month and since it’s the first great grandchild it’s kind of special occasion. Plus this way the fabric I bought for that dress I never made will be used for something. I think I have 2 yards of it, maybe more since Jess told me to get more than I would need.

If there’s anyone out there with a good sewing blog or info on beginners tutes and what nots please share!