Wednesday 30 January 2013

Scrapbusting Slippers

This month’s theme for the scrapbusting sewalong was “itty bits”, namely lengths of fabric of less than a yard. I managed two already, despite having a really nasty cold which meant that I just wanted to be in bed and not even watching the TV, let alone sewing. I didn’t even make birthday cakes for Robert and me, I was that under the weather.
I did however make Robert’s birthday present (out of remnants of calico and some black bias binding left over from another project). For his inner (and outer) geek:Geek Bags
Not surprisingly he uses them to store and transport his collection of cables and his headphones that he takes to church each week.

Slippers
I have also been experimenting with making slippers – I bought a pattern in the post-Christmas sales, and despite completely messing up my size selection for my first go I think they are not bad.
Apart from some of the wobbly stitching. And the fact that the fabric is a bit thin. But this will all be corrected next time around. This pair is made from a remnant of a sheet which I had already cut up for making aprons, and a pillow case.
On to February with its Love Challenge!


**** UPDATE ****
Here is another pair of slippers which just made it into January - but not gifted until February 2nd, so I had to wait to include them here. Made of some old jeans, remnant of cotton, and a drawstring bag hastily constructed from an old trouser leg.

3 comments:

  1. Those bags are so cool! How did you do the graphics for the headphones and cables?

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    1. Thank you! You've made my day. :-)
      The graphics started out as clip art in MS Word - then I resized and printed them onto t-shirt transfer paper and ironed it onto the calico. Have yet to see how durable this is, but as I doubt they'll be going through the washing machine much they should stand the test of time.

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  2. roza@oldmeadows..com6 February 2013 at 11:19

    I really like the look of these,specially the dark denim version - brilliant!

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