Spoonflower!

I heard about spoonflower almost a month ago. Signed up for the beta testing the same day and got an invite the day after. You can make your own pattern and have them printed on 100% cotton. The page is still in beta, but seems like it’s gonna be huge.

Sadly, I am NOT a designer, but I wish I could make up some pretty pattern and have it printed. I found it first via “Inside a black apple” and she has gotten another batch since then. I love her fabrics, and wish I could make something equally cute and pretty

There is a flickr group with patterns that are made for spoonflower, and some of them are amazing!

I had to make a mosaic of some of them, just to show everyone!

 

Another sewing post - laptop sleeve

So I made another thing today. A laptop sleeve, using this tutorial:
http://whipup.net/2007/12/16/tutorial-fabric-laptop-sleeve/

The tutorial was easy to follow, and it seemed like a quick project to me. I proved myself wrong. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever made! I drove down to the city this morning to buy bias tape (didn’t bother making it myself) and some batting. I got quilt batting, because that’s what the lady gave me, and I didn’t realize that I’d have to quilt it some.

After I realized that, I thought “well, that can’t be too hard” but it was, because the fabric didn’t stay still I got it acceptable at last. And then there was the velcro. I thought I had some in my stash, but all my stash was in Oslo I’d left my fabric etc here, because I don’t have a sewing machine in Oslo (yet) but I hadn’t thought of the velcro. So I had to drive down town to get some of that too. Luckily it went smoothly sewing that on.

Then came the next obstacle. The binding! I thought it was easy, but the fabric was so thick, so I had to fight with it to sew the binding on. In the end, I finally managed to do it, but it wasn’t exactly as nice and straight as I’d wanted it.

The sewing of the corners went nice, I thought. And after finishing up, and going up to the computer again, I realized I had sewn the corners in the wrong way An hour more of tearing out stitches, and I finally managed to sew it correctly!

So this was the project where almost everything went wrong. Luckily it works well, it’s just a little bit tight around the computer. And the thick batting protects it well. So I guess I got what I wanted - something to protect the laptop when it’s just lying around.

And here’s the images! (this was before I’d found out about, and corrected the corners)

 

new fabrics

The new fabrics that came in the mail today, all the way from Australia!

 

mail!

Today in the mail, I got the new panduro hobby-catalog, and I’m drooling all over it, lol

I also got the mushroom printed cotton canvas fabric today. All the way from canada in just 5 days. That is quick! I love the fabric! All cute colors, even though Thomas found it childish I took a picture of it for everyone’s enjoyment, but the colors aren’t as good as they are in real life. They are brighter in real life, because the image is slightly dark. I can’t wait making something with it, but I’m a bit afraid of ruining it too. But I bought a large piece, so I can afford to waste some. Now that I got this, I’m thinking of maybe using this for the camera cozy instead of the alexander henry hearts fabric that I had planned on using. That one hasn’t arrived yet, so I’ll see then.

Oh, and I took the bike to work today. It’s been a long while since last time, because I borrowed my grandfather’s car for 1,5 months. But it felt great using the bike again, apart from some major exhaustion when I reached the top of the long hill I have to get up before coming home
Was at work from 11-19 today. That’s not very fun, since it takes up the whole day. But I managed to get to the post office before work, so I could send the anklet I sold on etsy yesterday. I used an ordinary envelope, A6-size and brown papered. With double bubble wrap around the anklet. Hopefully it will arrive safe and fast. It only cost me 9NOK too ($1,5), so it was probably under 20gram, and got sent as an ordinary letter.