Third Project for Me: Tunes Tote

For my birthday I asked for a portable speaker for my iPod to take to work with me. Of course, it needs a bag!

I used some of the leftover fabric from my Divided Basket to make this simple little tote bag. It fits my iPod, portable speaker, and the cord to connect the speaker and iPod.

The speaker information can be found on Amazon, here. You push it together and it locks shut for travel. It is pretty tiny but has surprisingly good sound. We only have a couple of CDs at work, all of which I am sick of listening to. Radio stations are limited in the San Luis Valley and there are none that play anything I can listen to for an entire day. Pandora is great, but it uses bandwidth that we need for the store computer to be able to run the register. So I'm going to try this set-up for musical entertainment at work.

Second Project for Me: Divided Basket

I purchased the fabric and pattern for this almost a year ago! I'm so glad to finally get it made.

Here is the front with pocket.

Here is the back.

And here is the inside.

This is a Divided Basket. The link will take you to the Noodlehead website where you can purchase a copy of the pattern for yourself.

The pattern is very well written. My only complaint is that it includes pattern pieces that you have to print out and then cut out. For some of the pieces you have to tape two pieces together to make a single pattern piece. I would prefer to just have measurements rather than pattern pieces. But it was easy to measure the pattern pieces and write the measurements down so that next time I can cut things out that way. I guess this is just personal preference.

The pattern includes lots of pictures that are extremely helpful. I had no trouble reading the instructions and following the pictures. The cutting part (pattern pieces, fabric, interfacing and fusible fleece) took as long or longer than the sewing part. I'd guess it took me about 4 to 5 hours from start to finish.

I'm thrilled with how it turned out! It stands up nicely and looks great. I will probably make more of these. They would make great gifts.

First Project for Me: Notebook Cover

At my guild retreat in October I purchased a package of Candy Squares of the Noteworthy line. I thought these would make a great notebook cover.

I was right! I found a graph paper composition notebook to put inside.

I plan to use this for quilt pattern ideas.

If you would like to make your own notebook cover, I have a tutorial for this project. Click here to go to my tutorial.