Neat and Tidy

Many patterns that I am working from are hard copies rather than in pdf format. It is quicker to work from, but pdf are easier to adapt to new sizes (if somenone was intending to lose weight and be slimmer for instance). To keep my pieces together in one place I use kraft envelopes that are usually the size of indie patterns, and can hold the pieces as well as instructions. I bought mine here. 

How do you make sure your patterns do not get damaged and make sure you can find them easily? 

Addicted to Boxy Pouches | A Finish and a Fabric Giveaway {Sewing}

I am hooked, I cannot stop making boxy pouches, I can see my life full of boxy pouches. OK, maybe this is a tad OTT, but I do love them (now) - making them as well as using them. I have already plans to make more than these two, a bit fancier, so stay tune. 

These are the two matching ones I have made. One for bigger projects (the whole of Nord and an extra skein fits in it) and one for smaller project, currently holding my le challenge project. One was made last Friday and the other one this Friday (in a couple of hours - hourray for quick projects!). And this may explain why the smaller one (this week's finish) looks a bit less.. flat (?) than the oversized one. Yeah, to learning as you go along. 

So the smaller one follows to the letter the Kelbysews tutorial, except the interfacing which is heavier than the one recommended, and it works really well for me (except that apparently I bought a sew-on one rather than an iron-on one - making it just a bit harder). 

I chose a matching vintage sheet for the interlining - I received it as part of the vintage sheet FQ swap organised by Mary Emmens. It was probably the fabric that is the least vintage. 

The oversized one follows the same tutorial - but with different dimensions. I sort of made it up as I went along. It started by cutting two panels of fabric and interlining rather than one panel (same dimensions of that one panel), and cutting squares 2' 3/4 when making the box seams. 

I was very keen to get these finished before the weekend as we are off to a wedding tomorrow, and I really wanted nice pouches to travel with and to keep everything tidy. And a matching set of boxy pouches was just the ticket, and let's face it it is great to have a finish - feels like something was accomplished. 

So onto my giveaway people! You still have time to enter my knitting pattern giveaway (open until next Wednesday). But this is a fabric giveaway - an environmentally friendly fabric. After reading my review of the Ecofabrics store, Vishruti offered for one of you my lovely readers to win one yard of organic cotton fabric dyed naturally with plant/vegetable dyes from her shop. How nice is that! Just fill the Rafflecopter and good luck! 

The giveaway is open to all my readers, finishing on 15th September! 

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