A late entry

Last week, I pulled my Star Trek fabric for a bag that I wanted to make for my mom, the Trekker, for her birthday. I made it. Here's what the finish looks like:

Going boldly... somewhere.

I had a great time making this bag. It was my first time using interfacing. My first time adding hardware. And my third, fourth and fifth zippers (I'm a pro at zippers without a zipper foot, now). I'm really pleased that I cut my fabrics so straight and got the text graphic in a line. I didn't try to do that, it just worked out (if I had thought about it it would've been completely wonky).

My mom loves it. She did say to her sister that, "you can't tell it's Star Trek until you get right up on it..." What? Sorry, mom, but that is very OBVIOUSLY Star Trek fabric making your Star Trek trizip tote (trizip like tricorder). I love that it looks like a tricorder. My sister wants a bag - not Trek, but a bag - like this one and Mom wants another one a little larger. So, I plan to make more of these bags.

Linking up to Needle and Thread Thursday and Crazy Mom Quilts.

go make something today!

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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.