When my Mom and my Grandma fight for a bag...

I think all crafter out there know about Amy Butler. Yes, she's one of the "it" name in sewing world. I bought her bag sewing tutorial, Amy Butler's Style Stitches with a high expectation. Well, the book does have lots of  great bag, but blasphemy! The tutorial is quite difficult to follow (hopefully it's not because of my lack English), the illustration for the tutorial is very few, and the materials are very costly (there is no way that I will follow her materials suggestion).

Nevertheless, I managed to make one of the (supposed to be) beginner bag (that took me an entire day to make! What kind of beginner is that??). But it turns out very pretty and beautiful. My mom and my grandma fell in love in an instance, and voila, the bag is not mine any more.

So here it is, the bag, with a little tweak from the real design :)

Materials:

Fabric
- Reunion by Moda (Vanilla and Cherry Johnny's Jack and Graphite Ava's Apron)
- Some flower fabric I bought at Lincraft
- Two 2.5cm button
- Medium weight interfacing

SIDE A

SIDE B (Yes, I made it into a double sided bag)

INSIDE

The tweak: I made the bag 5cm smaller than the original pattern, remove the side pocket, made it double sided, and use button hole instead of following the instruction from the book.

Mir

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"

Another cover by Wayne and Me :) This time it's Adele's Someone Like You. Without further comment, please enjoy!

That lovely top!

Flea market is always a good place to find some good but cheap products. I found this lovely flowy flowery fabric in a second hand event months ago. Since the fabric is quite small, I combined it with other fabric. Voila, a flowery sleeveless top :)

I made the pattern by myself. Unfortunately, the size of the armhole is just too small. Well, practice makes perfect. This is also the first time I use french seam to close the seam.

So, here it is, my lovely top :)

My first ever French Seam

A wallet for a friend

Months ago, my friend requested a wallet from me, and this is the result :)

Black and White Wallet


Fabrics:
- cheap black and white fabrics that I bought at Spotlight and Lincraft.
- calico

Front View

Back View

Inside View 1

Inside View 2

Cards!

Some cards that I made but haven't send it to anyone :)

1. Another vintage card.

This one is my personal favourite. A vintage themed card with paper flower, a used lace, a stamped crumpled paper, a flower-shaped ribbon, some thread from a jute leftover, a tag with vintage stamp on it, on an embossed card. I just love the final result of this card <3

2. A happy friends card
Just a simple card composition with fun papers, stamped flowers, and a stamped ribbon. I like the colour of the background paper. I got it from a friend :)

3. A Thank You Card
Another simple card, but it seems I was not very neat when I put the middle panel. Well, at least it shows that I made it by myself <3

Simple crochet and granny square bag

I made these bags years ago before I came here. Both of them are very easy to make.

The first green-yellow-red bag was designed to be a small pouch. Unfortunately when I was in the 5th row, I realised that the size was too big, so I changed it into a small hand bag. I used local cotton yarn, very cheap with vibrant colour, but the yarn quality is not very good. If I wash this bag, the colour might fade away. I bought the handle in Indonesia for $2 per pair.

The second bag that I made is a granny square bag. I made 32 granny square with two design. I used acrylic yarn (which I don't really like, but unfortunately I love the colour *sigh*), a plain coloured and a three-coloured yarn.

Simple clutch

Another gift for my friend who's graduating this semester. A small clutch with a little bit formal look, (hopefully) quite appropriate for a semi-formal event.

This is a very basic envelope shape clutch. For the flap, I used the pattern from Amy Butler's book for the "Everything Wristlet". The fabric that I used are:

1. home decor fabric for the exterior
2. black cotton fabric for the flap
3. pink linen for the interior

I used fusible pellon and fusible medium weight for the interfacing. For the accessories, I bought this vintage-look charm in Indonesia.

And here it is!