My girlfriend Kylie decided to call our regular sewing group 'Sunday Stitchers'.
Once a month we meet up on a sunday and sew crazily.
We are now a group of seven with a new addition joining today!
So it was decided that this month we would all do the same project! As we are all usually doing different things! A bag making day it became.
My first real bag, besides the little one i made for my daughter last month!
Was it hard? Yes.
If I didn't have my friends helping I would not have been able to make this. For a beginner sewer it would be difficult without help. For an experienced sewer easy.
We were a little puzzled this morning with what wadding/ fusing (hard iron on fabric) to use. The older ladies figured it out & onto the project we got & pretty much all completed within 6-7 hours.
It's called the Black Forest bag - pattern by Melanie Hurlston
Pic from pattern!
My fabric for bag, cut out & ready to sew!
My finished bag!
Here are some pics of the other girls bags! Gorgeous girls!
Here they are below half done!
Completed!
Now I did have some sewing issues today! My tension on my bobbin was playing up!
All fixed now after I got Home. I googled issues with tension & found a great blog to help me fix my machine! All I had to do was tighten a screw in my bobbin case!
See blog below.
http://rdrop.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/thread-tension-janome-problem.html?m=1
Mel
It was a fun day (despite your bobbin issues) and we rocked at Black Forest bag making! How gorgeous and different they all turned out.
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