It’s been a while! Between buying a house, and my husband being put through the military wringer, I haven’t sewn very much — outside of what he needs for this ridiculous process, anyway. I feel like I’m being put through the wringer, too. Making t-shirts, sewing a flag, making flyers, sewing a cover for his book, making a map, and tomorrow comes the joy of decking out some eggs in dress whites.
Yeah, you read that right. Eggs.
I guess this is what happens when you have a graphic designer in your back pocket who also happens to be your wife who also happens to have taught herself to sew.
I can’t wait until this is over so we can move out of this lame apartment into our gorgeous new house, where I can set up my dedicated sewing room and go bananas. I’m having major sewing withdrawals.
As proof that I haven’t completely fallen off the face of the earth, I present the husband-requested pen case, made to match his book cover.
This is my first go working with suede, and it’s rather nice to work with. It was also 40% off when I needed to find it. He came home with a leather cover made by one of his fellow victims, and he looked pretty disappointed with it. It looked pretty hacked together, to be honest, so when he asked if I could make something nicer that looked similar, well, challenge accepted. I hunted around for leather, but A) leather is expensive, and B) I couldn’t find any that looked like what he had at a size it needed to be. But I did find suede; the giant 40% off roll of suede. Got half a yard of it for $6, and since it was a giant roll, it was extra long. Score.
When I finished the cover, he asked if I could make a matching case for the 5 pens he was required to have. And so I did. I used the left over blue required on the inside front cover of his book, and the left over gold required on the inside back cover, and left over suede for the outside. No pattern involved; just measured and used my case-thing-to-hold-a-phone-thing as inspiration.
I have so much waiting in the pipeline: a jeans pattern I bought from Itch to Stitch, a nightie pattern, the rest of my Stretch! sewing book, little boxes for my skinny, tall bathroom shelf soon to be moved into afore mentioned gorgeous new house…
Sigh. Soon, Deb. Soon.
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