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Some days ago, when I got all excited and bought all that Parson Grey fabric, I also bought heaps of patterns. I mean, heaps!!! Which was very cool, except that, in my excitement, I ended up with two of a couple of them. Since I created a strict sewing budget for myself this year, I am not very happy about my error. That’s an extra 3 yards of fabric, or 2-3 different patterns I could have bought! Know what I mean?
So, clearly, I need to sell them. Here are the two patterns…
The Liverpool
Charm Clutch
If you would like to buy them, please contact me. I haven’t opened the packets at all, so they’re brand new. It’ll be AU$15 for the Liverpool pattern, and AU$12 for the clutch. I’ll have to let you know how much shipping is, because it’ll depend on where you are, and if you want regular or express post.
a nice, snug fit for my brand new Sennheiser Headset i300
Or did I first decide I needed to race out today and buy a new set of earphones since my bluetooth headset died months ago?
I think I'm the only one who'll ever see that lining, or know it's there!
I don’t really know. But this is a mighty cute pouch! And, I whipped it up in almost no time at all!
how pretty is it! and so small!
I love it! Thanks, Erin, for such a great tutorial, and for the idea! I wouldn’t have ever thought of it, but I sure wish I had one of these several months ago, when the set that came with my iPhone fell off my lap as I got out of the car, only to be found by me a few hours later, still on the road where they fell, but a little “flat” after their encounter with a couple of cars that rendered them completely dead.
{Oh, and sorry for the poor quality of these photos. I’ve lent my camera to my photographer daughter whose just begun her new job with carsales.com.au. If you’ll be buying a car in the near future from their website, who knows, the photos you’ll see online may have been taken by her!}
I’ve decided to use the June Jubilee fabric for 3″ squares to punctuate the dark grey sashing. I’ve trimmed the 12 blocks so they’re all a uniform 15½” square, and cut the Jubilee into 20 x 3½” squares, and the Kona Cotton Solid grey into 31 strips of 15½” x 3½”. Now, my Oh, Beehave! quiting bee Gelati Parti Quilt top is all ready to be sewn up. I just need a big space to lay it all out and place the blocks in the right order. Another project to take to Trish’s class this Wednesday morning.
It’s amazing what a blog post comment can spark. A couple of days ago, the very lovely Thea from Thea & Sami wrote this blog post about her stunning new design, and I left a comment to answer her question about possible new colour options for this latest print. Lo and behold, this morning I saw that she’d actually visited my site, read my “About Me” page, and left me a comment that, as I read it, I knew what I had to do.
In her comment, Thea had written, “…I really enjoyed reading this especially the part where your father upcycled the old suits. So new age!” And as I read that, I laughed to myself and thought, “Dad would have loved to hear that! He always liked to think of himself as avant garde, ahead of the game, a forward thinker, an outside-the-square ideas man. That kind of thing. Upcycling! Yeah, he woulda loved that!
So as I’m thinking about all that, I pictured him in his factory, but not the one in Flinders Lane here in Melbourne. No, I mean the one in Poland, when he was a young man, where my Dad was trained to be a tailor. He must have been trained by his father, who was most likely trained by his father, my great-grandfather. My next thought was that I really need to pull out that photograph I have of my great-grandfather’s factory, put it up on the page, and write a bit about it for you to read. And that took me to pulling out all my old photos of Dad, and the album that his wife, Yvonne, gave me, the one she’d made of all his and my old photos. I just wish I had some photos of Dad’s factory in Melbourne, or even just one of him sewing. Such a shame that I don’t.
But if you’d like to see the old photo I uploaded just now, go to my About Me page.
Thank you, Thea!
