What's In the Bag?

My niece is approaching a birthday, and the party will be puppy-themed. It's all very exciting, and I just mailed off the handmade portion of her present. It's wrapped in this drawstring bag. I had to line the bag in the end because the cupcake fabric is too light in color to fully conceal the contents, and my niece is too young not to peek (so are her siblings, and I don't want to be responsible for any scene like that). What's inside the bag? It's a puppy-themed, fabric-covered sketch book for musings, stickers and drawings. It closes with a multi-colored pencil. I hope she likes it.

Drawstring Bag

A lady I met though Eclectic teaches a kind of jewelry braiding called kumihimo (see her web site at http://ikumihimo.com/). She recently hosted a class at Parkland and needed pouches to hold student project supplies. I made a scad of drawstring bags to her specifications, and now I'm thinking that the notion of a drawstring bag has fabric potential. Reusable birthday or holiday sacks with a simple pull closure would be both useful and easy to store between events. These bags aren't lined, but another layer of fabric would be both helpful keeping the gift secret and a chance to use another pattern.

Hat Pouch

My husband's good friend works for an engineering company, and one thing they do is measure and record damage to roads and airport runways as accurately as possible. Using GPS, they mark and survey projects hither and yon, so they need a way to carry their GPS locators pointing up to space. Of course, it's best for each employee to have their own hat, and so I present removable GPS pouches to wear on your head.

The pouches snap on to each hat, so the hat can be worn when there is no surveying going on. A buttonhole in the back of each pouch leaves room for a cord to trail down to some sort of back or belt pack. It warms my heart to see how sewing and technology can work together. I only wish some cute car or airplane print fabric could have been used.

New Prints

I'm busy sewing away for upcoming summer dates at Urbana's Market at the Square. Fresh fabric prints are a mix of cutesie and pretty. This way I can stay entertained and past customers will have reason to browse my booth just in case there's something they have to have.