She got a blue sewing machine for Christmas. Now we're figuring out where to set up her sewing table and I'm thinking about what projects will be fun and useful. We know a couple of babies, so fat quarter quilts. My folks could use some new placemats and my nephew brings cloth napkins. Our main things to work on are consistent seam allowances, locking seams, turning corners and remembering to put the presser foot back down.
The machine seems to be pretty good. I was really missing some of the features of my machine, like a light, the threader, a zipper foot, and seam allowance markings. But what it does, it seems to do well.
El sewed the tubes for the straps, and then we needed to switch back to my machine once we got home. And, um, switch sewists.
My first stab at the curved bottom was not curvy enough. I had her draw a line on the inside with a washable Crayola marker and sewed along those lines and it was finally good. Also, the inside edges are just pinked together, not hidden. Should be good enough for this draft. Also, I need to figure out how to do zippers better this year.
Again, she's happy with this pocketbook and using it regularly. Also, I let her cut up some Kaffe Fassett stash for the body. Cause I'm nice and I love her.
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