The Sewing Summit...here I come.

OK I'm doing my Happy Dance.  I have my tickets to The Sewing Summit  in Salt Lake City Utah.

 http://sewingsummit.com/

I still can't believe I'm going, I wanted  to go but not by myself so who better to ask to go then Janelle  from  emmalinebags.blogspot.com/.   


So we are all booked still need to get my flight booked, but when I come off the ceiling I will do that.

I have to make some funky bags before then.  Oh the pressure. lol

Bag Pattern and Hardware Giveaway at Emmaline Bags!

Bag Pattern and Hardware Giveaway at Emmaline Bags!

Emmaline Bags is having a giveaway for her new bag pattern.. It looks like a great bag and will be on my list to try.  The giveaway also includes a hardware kit for the bag! Check out the blog for some pics of some great bags by Janelle's testers

Pattern testing Boyd St. Bowling Bag

I was lucky to have been able to have been a pattern tester for  Boyd St. Bowling Bag which the talented Janelle at www.emmalinebags.blogspot.ca made up.

I had so much fun sewing this pattern, the instruction were very clear and straight forward.  Also she is great about including lots of pictures of the various steps.

I always like to use different types of fabrics when I sew bags, I'm never one to stick to 100% cotton.  So the choice of fabric is a big thing for me.  I usually sew on my industrial walking foot machines.  I can sew just about anything with it. I can sew cottons, and then go onto sewing canvas and leather just by changing out the needles. When I saw this pattern I knew I had to use Textilene and leather, two of my favorite fabrics to sew with.

I had no problems with  the pattern instructions at all while sewing this. Everything went together right the way they were suppose to.  I'm very happy with how my bag turned out. The only snag I ran into was trying to take a shortcut while making the straps and tabs.  I always use rubber cement, but thought I would try to use wonder under.  Needless to say with the upholster weight leather I used you really need to use rubber cement and a mallet. Once I went back and glued and beat the leather with a mallet everything turned out great.

This is such a great pattern to try and I have learned a few new tricks about keeping my lining fitting properly, and staying at the bottom of the bag. Also a chance to add some feet to the bottom of the bag. I will have to make more bags using feet.


Look for Janelle PDF pattern as it is available now at thru her website.

When should you stay off the computer?

Good question in my case I think it has been all week long. I should have stopped and gone to sew in the first place it would have been safer for anyone involved.

I have been bugging ChrisWDesigns all week as I screwed up my profile on the linking for the purse hop.

But today is the top, I just succeeded in deleting my tutorials off my blog.  GRRRRRRRRRRR!  I think I will leave anything to do with my computer work to my husband for the rest of the week. Hopefully he can retrieve it from somewhere dark in this computer. There is always hope right.

I just got a new computer yesterday and I haven't even turned it on today. Now I afraid that I will do something to it, as I was able by mistake to freeze up the the Touch Pad last night.  Hubby fixed it by rebooting it. I didn't think Blogging was going to add so much stress to my life. lol

I'm sure by next week I will find my computer knowledge again.  If not I will fudge it and maybe no one will be the wiser to things that are missing on my blog.