A pleasant evening.
2005-02-13 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeAfter a bit of annoyance because I could not decide on what to do I was picking up the very last of the stuff still left out after the University. In amongst these things was the little pouch I had started at that event to entertain myself in a lull between classes I was taking.
A nice, small, contained hand sewing project: Perfect! So I pulled out my needle and thread and set to it. I had to finish sewing up the three sides of the wool, then stitch down the tiny seam allowance to either side. I used - again, who can see a trend here about me and seam allowances? - too little seam allowance to fold them over on themselves properly so I had to just splay them to either side and run stitches along it.
It is annoying how I can never get the seam allowances right though. From ridiculously large to insanely too little. It irks me, I tell ya, irks me.
Returning to construction - I then sewed together the lining with the shell at the lower corners, just to make it stick - at which point I noticed how my seam allowance on the lining was even smaller, being linen I didn't use all that much out of..well, when I know the answer I won't be using stupid seam allowances any more. So the lining is larger than the shell. Not by very much, but still a bit. It's a minor annoyance, but larger lining is definately better than smaller. Turning the whole thing inside out I folded the top edge of the lining in on itself, then folded an edge of the shell over on this and in on itself to encase the raw edge. I hemstitched this down all around, then also ran a backstitch at an even distance from the top of my pouch, thinking to 1) make it more secure and 2) create a nice even channel for the drawstring to run through.
I had niftily not sewn all the way up along the sides of my pouch, such that when I folded down the top edge to the inside it created the two openings I needed for drawstrings at either side! Voila! Almost like it was planned. I did plan on it, but not on it being this useful, only that I might cut it down and make the pouch "shorter" than I had it cut out. I thought about that too late, so it became nifty stringing aids.
That only left strings. What to do, what to do. I looked through my meagre stash and found that bag of a naalbinding I started and recently ripped out. I had a few lengths of twirly grey wool sitting there, almost begging to be braided, so I picked out three strands of approximately the same length and did a standard braid on it. This is now stitched on as the carrying string. Then for a drawstring I didn't really want to use the wool because, although it is nice, it is frizzy and wouldn't really pull through the channel easily. I found another piece of braiding I'd done earlier, some wool-like quality, but much much narrower than the naalbinding wool. It was about ideal length, and I had nothing else at all to use, so that became my drawstrings. Cut in half this makes it two loops that pull to either direction, efficiently closing the pouch. I'm pondering wether I want to add tassles to the ends so I know which loop to pull.
The pouch now contains my new tiny wax tablet, which is still gorgeous btw, but even if the fabric is splendid - same as my gothic fitted gown - it is a little plain. A nice embroidered piece of heraldry would not go amiss on this pouch. I was pondering the populace badges of either Aros, Nordmark or Drachenwald on one side. Then, when I get my device registered, my own arms on the other.
Piccies when I get the thing completely done. And after I get some sleep.
A nice, small, contained hand sewing project: Perfect! So I pulled out my needle and thread and set to it. I had to finish sewing up the three sides of the wool, then stitch down the tiny seam allowance to either side. I used - again, who can see a trend here about me and seam allowances? - too little seam allowance to fold them over on themselves properly so I had to just splay them to either side and run stitches along it.
It is annoying how I can never get the seam allowances right though. From ridiculously large to insanely too little. It irks me, I tell ya, irks me.
Returning to construction - I then sewed together the lining with the shell at the lower corners, just to make it stick - at which point I noticed how my seam allowance on the lining was even smaller, being linen I didn't use all that much out of..well, when I know the answer I won't be using stupid seam allowances any more. So the lining is larger than the shell. Not by very much, but still a bit. It's a minor annoyance, but larger lining is definately better than smaller. Turning the whole thing inside out I folded the top edge of the lining in on itself, then folded an edge of the shell over on this and in on itself to encase the raw edge. I hemstitched this down all around, then also ran a backstitch at an even distance from the top of my pouch, thinking to 1) make it more secure and 2) create a nice even channel for the drawstring to run through.
I had niftily not sewn all the way up along the sides of my pouch, such that when I folded down the top edge to the inside it created the two openings I needed for drawstrings at either side! Voila! Almost like it was planned. I did plan on it, but not on it being this useful, only that I might cut it down and make the pouch "shorter" than I had it cut out. I thought about that too late, so it became nifty stringing aids.
That only left strings. What to do, what to do. I looked through my meagre stash and found that bag of a naalbinding I started and recently ripped out. I had a few lengths of twirly grey wool sitting there, almost begging to be braided, so I picked out three strands of approximately the same length and did a standard braid on it. This is now stitched on as the carrying string. Then for a drawstring I didn't really want to use the wool because, although it is nice, it is frizzy and wouldn't really pull through the channel easily. I found another piece of braiding I'd done earlier, some wool-like quality, but much much narrower than the naalbinding wool. It was about ideal length, and I had nothing else at all to use, so that became my drawstrings. Cut in half this makes it two loops that pull to either direction, efficiently closing the pouch. I'm pondering wether I want to add tassles to the ends so I know which loop to pull.
The pouch now contains my new tiny wax tablet, which is still gorgeous btw, but even if the fabric is splendid - same as my gothic fitted gown - it is a little plain. A nice embroidered piece of heraldry would not go amiss on this pouch. I was pondering the populace badges of either Aros, Nordmark or Drachenwald on one side. Then, when I get my device registered, my own arms on the other.
Piccies when I get the thing completely done. And after I get some sleep.
