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Sunday 6 March 2016

My first sewing machine project!





As you may know I have a sewing machine now, so immediately I started trolling pinterest for inspiration and projects I could do. I decided I really need a little cosmetic bag to carry around in my new work bag (which has no inside pockets to hide things), so that's what my first project was!

This was the tutorial I used, it was fairly easy to follow the images and I even managed to resize it to suit a zipper I had recycled from an old pair of jeans (I'll put the measurements I used on a separate post at some point and how I resized it in case anyone wants to know).

Hilariously the part that I find takes the longest when making something using a sewing machine is the preparations e.g. the cutting out templates and then marking and cutting the fabric. The sewing part was the easiest and quickest part!

When I was sewing the bag I found the hardest part was the zipper as I don't have a zipper foot yet, which meant that the teeth on the zipper would push the foot away and subsequently cause my sewing line to go a bit wonky from time to time, however as I used thread that matches the bag, you can't really notice. Thankfully you can pick up whole sets of sewing machine foot attachments from amazon really cheap (and most of them fit a variety of sewing machines which is useful). I have a Toyota machine and these are the ones I'm thinking of getting.


The pattern I chose because, it was the best one out of the fabric I had at the time! I was a bit short on supplies! hence the recycling of the zipper too. However the fabric does look rather nice anyway, I would have chosen a different lining fabric, but that was from an old t-shirt that I wanted to use up.
The bag itself ended up being too small to hold much more than lipsticks and stuff so I now use it to hold the earphones I got for my birthday, and it does a splendid job!

I have managed to make an improved version of this one and I shall be sharing it soon on the blog so look out for it :)

Thanks for reading!
Charlotte x

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