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Ki-Mama Sevenberry Fabric

Essex Cotton/Linen Stripe in Chambray

 

Bohin Murano Glass Head Pins

Sample Sale - Two Pocket Wallet (Sold)

Next up for the sample sale is this little wallet. Sold - Thanks!

This was made using the Two Pocket Wallet pattern, a floral fabric from Sevenberry, cotton/linen fabric from Robert Kaufman that is sold out and no longer available (so unfortunate...I'll miss this one), pink gingham from Maywood Studio, and two pink snaps from Snap Source.

Sample Sale - Pinstripe Denim Grocery Bag (Sold)

Watch for samples here on the blog for the next week or so. I've got some end of summer tidying up going on and have a collected a small stack of sample sale items. 

First up is a Grocery Bag made from a lightweight pinstripe denim. Sold - thanks! This fabric is only about an ounce heavier than quilting cotton, so this is not a heavy denim bag. 

This is the large size in the pattern and it is lined in Rifle Paper Co's "Rosa" print in periwinkle.  

So Long and Farewell to this Beloved Pattern

This month we are saying goodbye to the Patchwork Coasters pattern as it goes off into retirement.  

I have made many, many of these over the years and don't plan to stop making them. They are popular in my shops, I use mine--even the old and kind of decrepit ones--every single day, and they are one of my favorite things to make!  

But...this pattern is from 2013 (!!!) and could use some photo updates.

There's nothing wrong with the photos, but the pictures in my newer patterns have a pure white background and the photos in this pattern do not have the white background. 

Not a huge deal, but the photos look better and brighter with a white background, and it saves ink. Retaking and editing the photos is a big time investment and it's always a guess whether it makes sense to to do it for an older pattern so mostly I just let them "retire".  

So the Patchwork Coasters pattern is now considered "an oldie, but a goodie" and is on sale for 50% off through the end of the month. 

You can find it here at michellepatterns.com or here on etsy.  The sale price is marked.

Patchwork Grocery Bag V.2.0

Another patchwork bag is done!  This one is similar to this one in that they are the same base fabric, both were made using the Grocery Bag pattern (this is the medium), and the basic idea is pretty much the same.  The main difference is these patches are flat and the other ones have folded back edges.

Here is what one side of the bag looks like before trimming the edges and sewing it to the other side:

These patches are backed with interfacing, trimmed to somewhat of a square or rectangle, and then stitched to this lightweight denim using a zigzag (length: 3.5) for the outer edges and then a straight stitch (length: 2.6) as the back up stitching inside the zigzag.

My machine does have an overcast stitch that is pretty much the same as combining these two, but it is slow to sew with it and it's just faster to use a zigzag and then the straight stitch.

Despite two rows of stitching, these patches are going to fray. I washed this bag to see how much fraying we are talking about and was pleased to find it wasn't a whole lot. But this bag will need a haircut at some point in the future.