Thank you for joining me today,
I am continuing to find ways to use up the small pieces of fabric in my box.
I had a dark blue strip of cotton and wondered what to do with it. A while ago I had knitted a cosy for our cafetière. It had begun to stretch slightly, so I decided to line the inside of the cosy with the fabric. This would give it strength and help insulate the coffee better.
First, I pressed the fabric under a damp cloth to get any creases out. N
Next, I folded over a quarter of an inch on all sides, and then folded them over again a quarter of an inch. I gave another press with the iron for nice crisply folded edges.
Then I lay the Fabric on top of the wrong side of the cafetière. The hems are facing the cosy so you won’t see them. I carefully hand stitched the fabric to the cosy.
This little bag/purse is for my granddaughter. I had some small bits of bee printed fabric to give a bit more interest. It was a case of folding the fabric in different ways to see what style I could come up with. I folded in a section as you can see to curve the edges at the bottom.
I think my little granddaughter will love her bag. Next time I would remove some of the bulky edges as they were difficult for my machine to get through. I overstitched the curved edges by hand and that came out nicely.
The surprise
Just as I was almost out of fabric in my box, A friend emailed me to say she was having a clear out of her fabrics and hopefully I wouldn’t mind, but she has sent me three packages of fat quarters, and various offcuts of cotton fabric, large and small!
It looks like I am going to be sewing again very soon.
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