She wanted me to make her one so feeling inspired by Nettnot's applique bunny bag I got to work and ordered a basic bag, purchased some trimming and raided my fabric stash.
My applique skills are not great and sewing around shapes is not a strong point either so I decided on a basic heart shape to adorn the front of the bag.
I started by making a template and cutting around it.
Then I cut some bondaweb and ironed the heart onto the front of the bag. I love bondaweb!
Next I stitched around the edge of the heart in a zigzag stitch. In hindsight I think I should have used smaller stitches a lot closer to the edge. I may go back and add another row of stitches.
Next was the trimming, I started with the fancy ric-rac and stitched along the centre to secure it in place. I learnt a valuable lesson here. I stitched both ends on at the same time and then worked my way around. The ric-rac was slightly too long for the bag so I ended up with a gathering as I was unable to adjust where the end of the ric-rac joined the start.
I decided that a green ribbon would look lovely along the centre of the ric-rac, so I started to work sewing this on using one of my special stitches. Unfortunately my needle snapped halfway around.
After a quick change I was ready to continue and to finish the edging.
Overall I am pretty pleased with this for a first attempt at applique and decorative edging. I am still new to sewing afterall. I get to hand it over next week when I visit my parents for my birthday. I do hope my Mum loves it as much as I do.
What a lovely gift and so much more thoughtful than a 'shop bought' present. Your mum will be over the moon!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I hope she likes it. If not I can keep it.
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