Casserole Caddy

Have you seen these floating around? They're pretty nifty, and since I promised a friend of mine for her birthday last year, i finally got around to making one!

 

I'm fairly happy with the outcome, although there are a few things that didn't work out the way I wanted. Let's take a look shall we?

 

I used this pattern from Joann's. It was nice not to have to measure and worry about math, but as you can see i did some modifications. As cool and convenient it is to do the handles as the serving utensils, I personally find wooden handles to be not all that comfortable, and add a heavy dish full of food and I foresaw the actual carrier getting 'forgotten' in lieu of just carrying the casserole itself. Maybe that's just me. Either way, I didn't want to lose the convenience of having a place for serving supplies, so I just added a little Velcro strap to hold 'em.

 

You can see that the Velcro doesn't quite line up, the reason being isn't because I screwed up. Oh no, my 13"x9" dish is actually 13.25"x9.25", what weirdo designed that? But even with my unnecessary extra 1/4" sides it still fits pretty well.

 

So what didn't turn out the way i wanted? Well, I used flannel instead of the decor weight recommenced fabric and while I think it looks cuter and will function just was well, it proved a bit difficult to use with the 'insul-bright' batting. That being said I have never used any type of batting before, so there's a very strong chance my issues with it have everything to so with my lack of experience. Basically there was lots of shifting of fabric which led to puckers and some of my seams got shifted.

Oh, and I forgot to mention I put it together wrong first, and didn't discover my error until I had cut away the bulky seams and clipped corners! I blame it on the fact that it took me 2 weeks of 15 min here, and 20 min there to assemble and sew it together. Call it mom-brain if you must (thought you got your brain cells back after giving birth? Haha! Not a chance!)

I am overall happy with the outcome and will be experimenting with insul-bright again. Maybe a lunch bag for work? We'll see. I just hope the recipient likes and used this as much as I do/would! :)

Drawstring Bags

Hey guys! Slowly getting back into the swing of things here! I have a few projects I am working on, but I wanted to show you some that were actually finished!

Behold! Drawstring bags! I needed a larger project bag for my sweater, so I decided it was as good an excuse as any to make myself one of those cute baggies I see popping up on Etsy and Pinterest.

The other is (yet) another dice bag for my man, who I have decided has an unhealthy addiction to dice. I mean seriously! But they're easy to make and he likes showing off to his pals what his wife can do! He could definitely be doing worse. :p

So what have you been up to?

WIP- Done!(-ish)

Sorry for the terrible photos… it's been one of those days!

Here's number one of my mystery project! I'm debating whether or not to write up a pattern for these suckas... There's one more to go, and a month until I can fully 'unleash' them to the interwebs.

 

However, this thang is done and delivered. This is a Plastic bag Holder based on In Color Orders tutorial. I didn't quilt it('cuz I don't quilt), and I am happy with how it turned out! (So's my mother-in-law, it was her birthday present)

Hope your week going well!

Sunday Funday... sort of.

Well, it started well enough, but I quickly found that putting the finishing touches on my purse was going to be difficult. Notice it's monday now? Yeah, I worked for a good 3 hours yesterday before heading over to my padres for dinner and the Oscars and still didn't finish.

 

I've used this pattern before, and opted for a different version this time (I went for the upper right as circled in red above.)

 

I started this purse last weekend as a leisurely pursuit, and it's turning into a ball of stress I want to hurl out the window! For starters, it's very difficult to find fold-over braid, because they don't sell it like that and it goes by names like "poly fold over" and what have you.  So after deciding to buy regular braid and iron a fold in my self I discovered that the gusset whats noting to do with it. (joy)

 

 Oy vey, I'm taking a break for the rest of the week from it and will resume work after my birthday next monday! Hopefully I will have an epiphany before then and it will be a slice of cake! Until then I guess I will continue to work on projects to sell in my shop...