ARRRT! » Bags http://imakearrrt.com Get Back to Analog with Handmade Journals & Other Fun Stuff Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:43:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The perils of making up your own patterns http://imakearrrt.com/2006/08/14/the-perils-of-making-up-your-own-patterns/ http://imakearrrt.com/2006/08/14/the-perils-of-making-up-your-own-patterns/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:23:55 +0000 Alexia http://imakearrrt.com/blog/?p=17 I have never used a pattern to sew anything, but I have used tutorials to get myself started. I make stuff up as I go along and if it works, then I keep doing it. I think I’ll keep doing it this way – I don’t want to end up looking like everyone else.

The past few days I’ve been working on a new bag – more square, tapered at the top, and instead of using the ‘jordy bag‘ technique, I’m making the bag with a gusset – which means a total of 11 pieces of fabric for the bag instead of 5 or 6.

I spent late Monday night cutting out the ‘pattern’ – I had a basic trapezoid shape I wanted to try.

Wednesday I went crazy with the gocco and printed my very own design on a whole lot of fabric. I had to stop myself so I wouldn’t use it all up!

pods

Thursday night I pieced together the front of the bag with one of the pieces of fabric I gocco’d and tried to sew the whole thing together… The corners sucked so I ripped out the seams before I went to bed.

I finished up late friday, and I’m very pleased with the result. I was very tired & impatient – I couldn’t wait for better lighting to take the photo, but here it is:

pod bag

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This is the third incarnation of this bag. The first one was a small hand-sewn pouch, the second was a felt bag, and now this one.

I have RSI affecting both my arms, so hand embroidery is rough sometimes. I decided to play around with the free-motion embroidery setting on my sewing machine & I really liked the scribbly look to it.

The outer fabric is olive green denim, the applique is felt & the inside is a flowery yellow fabric.

This is on its way to a gal in Florida…

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