Drawstring Tote!

Girlfriend! Robin and I had a lot of fun playing over the weekend and look what I made!

We trialled Texture Magic - a fun product to use! For those of you who don't know, it gives the appearance of shirring! It is a bit of a hoot to watch it shrinking before your eyes, 30% they say! For this effect, I first used a pencil to grid the product at 1 1/4" apart, then pinned it to the fabric, then stitched on the gridded lines, then held a steam iron just slightly above the Texture Magic and Voila!

I bought the product through Julie Woods, a Superior Threads rep living in Goulburn, NSW. I must say how efficient and helpful, Julie is - I ordered last Monday and it was here Wednesday, from one side of the country to the other - now how good is that!

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When and if I make another, I will make a couple of modifications/additions to the pattern. All in all, it was a very productive weekend for me. Today I might take a 40 minute trip to our closest big shopping centre and have a little look at the spring/summer fashions, as we had two lovely warm days over the weekend!

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Hope yours was a happy one!

Happy Dilly Bag!

I've been playing today - all good fun! Another prezzie made!

This dilly-bag has a boxed bottom - a combination of my Happy Bag and original Dilly-Bag!

I badly wanted to try Texture Magic on the middle fabric - sad story, a shop assistant sold the last piece left from under my hands - she had measured it and all, 45cm, and I told her 'yes thanks, I'll have that piece' and was waiting for other fabric to be cut by the young gentleman there and when I came to pay up and asked about my Texture Magic, I found out it had been sold to another customer - you'll be very proud of me, my bottom lip dropped, but I didn't chuck myself on the floor and throw a tanty!

Soooo - I really, really wanted to have a little play today and went ahead anyhow and am reasonably happy with this little creation. The young man promised he would get some in and it should be there Wednesday - this business calls it Shrink Magic - I think perhaps they are confused - anyone in Australia heard of the latter? I will do a little tutorial as soon as I can!
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Stay tuned for the next episode - LOL!