I have known for a LONG time what I was making her for her birthday. In fact I had a number of ideas, but after mulling them over, one is much better as a wedding gift {its not for a long while, so maybe it'll get given to her earlier} and the others might not have worked very well yet - my sewing skills aren't quite where they need to be........
But for starters, I made her a 'Party in a box' – the idea came from this guest post by You Are My Fav.
The box included;
- A mini bottle of champers and a glass.
- Cake mix with icing frosting rather then buttercream {lizzie isn’t a frosting fan} and a recipe card and cake cases.
- Candles.
- Balloons.
- Some birthday confetti – erm, sorry about that – I bet its not easy to clean up.
- A garland made from cut out paint chips.
- And the must have 30 badge!
Then I turned to my sewing machine, printed out the very easy to follow pattern from U-handbag and made this 'For Pleats Sake' handbag.
Actually that makes it sound like I whipped it up in an hour. Unfortunately it took a little longer than that and involved a bit of swearing, a lot of needles being stuck in my fingers and some confusion - but the tutorial has some easy to follow pictures that accompany pretty much every stage of the bag making and in the end I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.
What do you think?
{I bought the Cath Kidston fabric in a particular moment when i was misguidedly feeling flush with cash, and being the sewing novice I am, I bought WAY too much of it, but I am excited that there is enough to make at least another bag out of it. If not something else fun. The lining is a solid pink that co-ordinates with the pink in the flowers and the handles aren't the ones the tutorial as they had sold out, but they were easy enough to find on Ebay. }
I love that handbag! You should set up an Etsy shop, seriously.
ReplyDeletei think i might need to hone my sewing skills a bit more - this one took me longer in my time than i think selling might be worth ;)
ReplyDeletebut thank you. x