YAY! One challenge down, and a lovely project bag for me :D

Yes I've completed my first Sewing Challenge, for January in the 12 months sewing challenge hosted by Carolyn on her blog here:

I do have to confess first of all that I am a novice sewer (and blogger for that matter!), learned the little I know in high school 25yrs ago, and a basic sewing course at TAFE and thats about the extent of it. I recently dragged out the machine again after a miserable attempt at a shorts and top set when my 7yo was a baby. Hey I conquered knitting (haha ok it still gets the better of me sometimes), I can conquer anything now right? :P So this is my blog to "conquer" sewing! I am determined to get as good as I can, after all its mostly practice isn't it? I'm going to leave my dyeing and knitting in my other blog and hopefully I can get crafty enough for them both.

Anyway, enough of the rambling on, what a rush it was getting this project completed in the end. I had started and then had the wrong length zipper, and was going to get a longer one but couldn't get back to spotlight so just made the bag shorter instead. I did have this planned for christmas, then for before we went away (to take my knitting in). With school holidays and all, it never happened and I'm so pleased I finally have my lovely knitting project bag :D I only had a rotten old quilted spotlight thing that was suitable for old grannies (no offence to lovely old grannies its just I'm not one!)

The bag is fully lined with a lovely big handle and should do nicely for small to medium projects.

I have made a couple of slender boxy pouches before for gifts, and another that was too small for anything lol, each using different tutorials, perhaps I should stick to the same one, but its nice to see how everyone does things differently. This one is nice and boxy (square even) and its all for ME and my knitting, yes I am excited I finally made something for me! I would still love to make a bigger project bag too and found another tute for that I might attempt shortly. Hopefully before next January...

Here it is ready to go, I haven't cast on with this wool yet, its one of my first hand painted wool experiments :) In fact I don't know what to make with the wool so feel free to suggest something hehe. But I may just have to get sewing again first :)

Robyn

What to make first?

Should I make my daughters apron that I have been promising, or should I start on my 2010 challenge and make the knitting bag I've been dying to make for months? lol

decisions decisions!

See It Make It

I have a weakness for tutorials and wanting to make whatever I see. Once a completely UNcrafty person (until 18 months ago), I've learned that I CAN do craft, and its fun, anything is conquerable, it just takes practice and preferably good tools and materials :) And most of all belief that you can do it...

When I was young I learned to knit and found I was hopeless and always making mistakes, so didn't try again for over 20years, now I know that I can knit whatever I want to and it will turn out really well, or at least well enough to fool people lol. It was learning to crochet that made me attempt knitting again, and now I don't have time to crochet as I'm too busy knitting.

But this is my sewing and crafty blog, I will leave my dyeing and knitting blog as it is and put other creations and ideas here! I have a new overlocker that I begged for and got for christmas, I can't wait to put it to good use. I also like to sew MCN (modern cloth nappies) so some of those will end up here also.

First up I'm going to sign up for the 2010 12 months sewing Challenge- I saw it last year but needed to get this new crafty blog going first :)