Friday, August 27, 2010

I Heard A Story...


Making pouches and bags for the Urbana Market at the Square and the Shared Space art and craft cooperative is fantastic. I am free to sew and sew and sew with a multitude of fabrics and a rainbow of zippers and then pass my projects along to make room for more fabric and more zippers.
I have a few ideas of what the pouches might be used for, and I can report what I do with my own items, but I recently heard what a few others have stored in their pouches.
I have learned that someone bought a long and thin knitting needle zippered pouch to hold his telescope. I was also told a younger customer uses his small zippered pouch to hold his treasures, which include the skull of a squirrel.
Money, tools, collections, unmentionables, and random what-nots are all out there zipped up and stored in a pouch I made in my vast spare time. So cool.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A Basket for the Market


It was a great Saturday at the Market at the Square yesterday. The weather cooperated, and my pouches appealed to customers gathering peaches, cheese, flowers and other market whatnot. I had several fun conversations with folks who enjoy a really pretty fabric, are thinking about sewing themselves, or just had extra time to browse. I delivered three custom orders and wrote down the details for a new one.
I've been interested in fabric baskets lately and took 6 of them to this Saturday's market. The orange one pictured to the left did not sell, but baskets with dogs and the hippos on them did. My next booth day is in two weeks, and I'll take this basket back then. I will have to refrain from using it to store fabric in the mean time.