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Hang onto those stashes!
By Serena Smith | April 1, 2010
I have lots of stashes of various bits and pieces of items in my sewing room – fabric scraps, ribbon, beads, buttons and who-knows what else. At times when I’m sorting through things, I often wonder to myself, “Do I really need to keep all this stash of stuff?” And usually I end this mental argument with myself by concluding, “I’ll just hang onto it a little bit longer.”
After I created my quilted fabric and cut out the purse pattern, I started digging for embellishments that would work. I had decided to use burgundy with the ivory fabric, so I found some sheer burgundy ribbon that would work perfect.
One problem: it was only 1″ wide. Too narrow for the pleated satin I wanted to stitch on top of it. Solution: Stitch two pieces of ribbon together to make it wider. Perfect!
Then stitch the pleated shiny satin trim on top of the ribbon. I found this pleated trim on one of my fabric shopping trips and loved it. It turned out beautifully on the ribbon.
Then this ruffled velvet trim fit perfectly right down the center of the pleats. Stacking trim and ribbon is fun and creates a neat layered effect. I should do more of this to use up the huge stash of ribbon I now own.
I stitched the layered ribbon down the center of the cut-out pattern and then stitched the binding to the outside edge.
After I stitched the bias binding to the edge, I then encased the raw edge in it and tacked it to the inside edge by stitching in the ditch around the edge. Perfect edging!
The last step was to stitch the purse sides together and add the magnetic closure.
Add a ribbon/corded pin I found at the Houston Quilt Market one year and it’s finished! Quite stylish and unique! And every single bit of it used from my collection of stashes!
It’s at times like this that I’m so glad I have those little (or rather large!) stashes!
Topics: Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Fabric Tips, Helpful Lessons, Project Ideas, Project Photos, Projects, Sewing | 2 Comments »
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am
very nice idea and very pretty result, one can use eny combination of colors and textures of fabric and ribbons.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
It looks great Serena and what a great idea.I keep my little stashes for crazy quilt blocks.