My friend, Emily, was making a LOT of pouches for a garden walk faire and that put me in the mind to make some pouches, too. Plus, earlier in the year, Emily was being totally generous to a few quick responding friends (she had put an offer on her FB page) and gave away a few pouches she had made. I was lucky enough to get one! Anyway, it is such a nice size. When I asked about fabric cutting sizes, she was nice enough to share with me. I figured out/made up the rest on my own... pouches can be pretty standard once you have made a few.
So, on Thursday, I went on a cutting spree and cut out fabric for 10 pouches. You might notice that there are only 9 in the photo... I ran out of time before I had to clean up for company and hadn't finished the 10th pouch yet. Today, I sewed up the 10th pouch and cut out 8 more pouches, because that's all the interlining supplies I had on hand. I had planned to finish them all today, but then I had a lazy day instead. I'll finish them tomorrow.
Of course, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with all of them! I did manage to sell one of them to my friend. My dad's cousin said she wanted 6 for Christmas gifts, but I'm not really sure if she wants them now or closer to Christmas. We'll see on that one. If all else fails, my family will be getting lots of pouches as part of their Christmas gifts.
In other news, I manage to make three trips into Chicago in one week: 1) a Cubs game with my dad/step-mom, step-brother and his g-friend, and my husband 2) a fancy dinner and 30 minute cruise off of Navy Pier for my friend's birthday 3) a concert at Soldier Field
These are only photos from the fancy dinner and boat cruise, of course. We were actually supposed to take a sunset cruise on Lake Michigan, but we missed our boat. We were running a bit behind, but still okay on time... except that the boat company has like three different spots on the dock and we followed what we thought we understood based on the map, but that ended up being wrong. We're all college educated adults, so I think that the map/tickets and the boat company booths could all have been more clearly labeled. Something like, "Your boat leaves from spot A/B/C" and then have each booth labeled with an A/B/C. This would make a lot of sense to me, anyway. Luckily, though, the sunset cruise was not the last cruise for the night. So, they let us just switch our tickets to the next boat and that ended up being pretty cool with the night skyline of the city.
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I love the fabric choices on your pouches! they are fun to make, aren't they? I haven't been to Chicago in years. Hubby travels there fairly often for work & maybe I can eventually tag along... love the city!
Cute pouches.
The photo of the skyline is beautiful and that lobster doesn't look bad either. LOL
What a nice picture of you! I have always wanted to take a cruise on the lake. Must do!
The pouches are cool. You might sell them on Etsy for back to school as I can totally see them as pencil pouches Wallene and all her friends like to carry their stuff in their backpacks.
And I had a small giggle at "We missed our boat." Talk about literally missing the boat. hee
As it ended up looks as tho' it was a wonderful time. And the food is gorgeously yummy looking. Want!
Have fun sewing. Hugs!
PS - I forgot to say - LOVE the pic' of you. Nice and so pretty. :)
I always find that one pouch leads quickly to another!!
Cute Pouches! :) I've linked you up at Bag Brag Tuesday:
http://blog.chriswdesigns.com/2013/07/bag-brag-tuesday-linking-party-week-eight.html
Great Pouches Sally! I love the trips into Chicago too, fun!
Sorry Sally - there's no such thing as going overboard on pouch making! Love your fabrics - and look at how much stash you busted making them - that's win win as far as I'm concerned :) You can never go wrong having a collection of pretty pouches ready for last minute or unexpected gift giving, or to use as the "wrapping" for a gift card or cash or small item - or even just to put a smile on someone's face if they're having a bad day!
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