travel sewing pack
Awww yeah. Tiny and cute and crafty. I’m down.
I spent part of Saturday sewing with the amazing women of the Fort Collins Modern Quilt Guild and left full of new ideas and quilting mojo. We sewed at Penny’s lovely new place, and it was so inspiring to see all of her beautiful stuff at work and in use throughout a real, live, living and breathing home.
Carmen was making a super-cute little travel sewing kit from this tutorial from Lots of Pink Here, and I got down on that action like immediately. I’m working on a big sewing/knitting/making space clean-up (how can such a tiny area become such a disaster? There seems to be an inverse relationship between how small a space is and how cluttered I can make it), and this tasty little treat was a nice reward.
This is all scrappy—Echino camera scraps, quilting cotton scraps, and orange and yellow semi solids that I think might be Shot Cottons?
Things I did: I added a little pencil case-style zip pouch between the center and right panels. It’s sewn into the seam, and flips over freely like a page in a book.
I used a tiny shank button and a buttonhole instead of velcro to close the thread strap. I can see myself clogging up the velcro with lint and tiny thread snips and rendering it useless in a hurry.
I changed the orientation of the center panel pieces, and put in a small, shallow pincushion backed with cardboard. It’s just long enough to store the pins in transit if they’re pushed in parallel with the fabric, and just tall enough to be useful as a working pincushion. And I made the scissor case narrower to hold small but real fabric scissors securely.
Things I wish I’d done: Cut the fabric with the motifs centered differently; there’s a camera perfectly centered on the back panel, but it’s less cute when you see it folded in thirds. But otherwise, it’s adorable and I love it. I’m currently a little obsessed with paper-pieced 60 degree diamonds, so this is going to be amazing for carrying them around. Boring meetings, you’ve met your match.
