WIP Wednesday - not quite in progress

I have to think. I usually have to have the project completed in my head before I can start. I have been stalled on this bag for my mother for a little while now. I want to make her a cross-body bag that she can carry with her to the flea market and other shopping trips. My mom loves Star Trek so I got some neat Star Trek fabric last week to make this bag.

Camelot Cottons Star Trek bundle

She has complained when I make her Star Trek things that are not "In Your Face" Star Trek.

Now for the design. I wanted to make a cross-body bag with a zipper. Then I remembered those cute, little, three-zip pouches that Debbie at A Quilter's Table did a tutorial for. I love those, but I would like something larger and cross-body. Then I saw this and that's what I wanted to make. Now, there's no tutorial for it, so I'll just have to figure out the measurements, but at least I can visualize it, now. I have to run some errands before I start on it later this afternoon, but I'm very excited. Linking up to Freshly Pieced.

xoxo

I made a dog bed

Lulu chewing her bone on her dog bed.

Okay, so I didn't really make a dog bed - I made a dog bed cover.  The old cover looked like this:

Benjamin's dog bed cover/case - he ripped it a little.

I had a dog for a long time - he was a little dog - he had two feather beds. When I had to put him to sleep in January I promptly removed the dog beds from the house because I couldn't look at them. They were Benjamin's and the covers were his as well. I knew that I would use the beds again, but I would have to make new covers for them.When we got Lulu, I was still feeling lazy and I didn't know how to put in a zipper. Today was my second time installing a zipper and it was pretty easy - I don't know what I was so worried about. Anyway, my brain is a little confused from all the new hormones and stuff I'm taking, so I cut into my four yards of flannel and cut it wrong - I had to piece together the pieces with some strips on either side to make the cover fit over the pillow/bed, but it fits - the zipper is perfect. And Lulu seems to like it. So, yay!!! I made a useful something for my dog. Maybe she will be nice to me today.

Penn and Lulu testing out the pillow case.

Mrs. Cat wondering when I will get around to covering her bed.

              

So, get going and make something new today. Linking up with Kelly@ Needle and Thread Thursdays  on My Quilt Infatuation.

Tuesday night cluster headache

I've been fighting it all day and I've finally succumbed to this (what I feel is a) cluster headache coming on. I didn't have my coffee this morning and that seemed to start this whole thing. My body needs a certain amount of caffeine or it won't work right. My insomnia is actually worse if I don't have enough caffeine in my day - it's weird. Anyway, I'm working on it now, but I think it is too late.

I want to link up to Better Off Thread's Sew Cute Tuesday, so here is a rehash of my first zippered pouch:

lining

so cute.

I have been doing a ton of knitting lately and I'm enjoying knitting almost as much as sewing. It must be the sock knitting. I like to be able to make a sock in a few sittings. I also love to knit hats - anything in the round, really. So fun!!! I'm finishing up my first two, toe-up socks and I'll have to make the mates to those. Then, I'm going to go back to ankle down socks. I think I like the construction better. I want to make some sweet cables in the heel gusset stitches on my next pair and I think it will be easier with the ankle-down method. Also, I tried to work the two-at-a-time socks with the magic loop and that didn't seem to make any sense to me at all. I hope that I didn't lose the ability to adapt and change when I turned 40. LOL!

I'll post some more photos tomorrow and I also hope to get some sewing done. I did make a pot holder today using this tutorial, but it didn't completely work out. More on that later.

I wish I would've made the hot/cold aroma therapy packs already - a cold one would come in handy for my stooopid headache.

Make some sh*t.

Whoo hoo! Zippered pouch

YES!!! I finally made a zippered pouch. I don't think my MIL's Galaxy II Tablet will fit in there, but I'm gonna send it to her anyway. I'm so excited! And without further ado... here it is:

I made it.

I love the V & Co Simply Color fabrics.

Lining is a cheapo fabric I got at Big Lots, i think.

So, I finally figured out the whole turning thing and the next zipper project I make I will use a zipper foot. I thought that I had one from my Grandma's sewing kit that she gave me. There was a foot that I thought was a zipper foot and I tried to use it, but it's either too old, or just doesn't quite work with my machine, or it's not really a zipper foot. I ended up using my regular presser foot and it worked fine.  Thanks for all the wonderful encouragement from the blogging world. I feel great right now. I'm off to dance class with my hubby.

Linking up to Better Off Thread.

Make something!

Sabado

Tonight is the opera. Today I'm having lunch with a HS friend. I just don't see much sewing getting done today. I can/will take my sock with me to knit on at lunch and the car ride up to Santa Fe for the opera. I should stop in at Michael's and pick up the #2, long circulars to knit two at a time toe up socks.

my messy workspace

working on the patchwork outer

quilting started

outer, inner and zipper

I started my quilted tablet case/pouch last night. The front is all Simply Color patchwork and the lining is some very cheap, Wal-Mart fat quarter. I can't decide whether to use a velcro-tab closure or put in a zipper. Decisions, decisions. I'm gonna look for some fabric to make my messenger bag - I usually buy fat quarters, but the bag needs some larger pieces. I'm gonna get a couple of half yards for it.

I hope ya'll get some sewing/project time in this weekend between all of your fun  plans.

Sew on!