Friday, February 22, 2013

Silent Auction Item!

I made this bag for a silent auction to benefit my son's Hockey team.  It turned out cute, but was a pain to make.  Everything that could go wrong did.  I had picked some upholstery fabric to use in the beginning.  I had the whole bag cut out and tried to iron the interfacing on.  First, I burned the fabric... learned you  can't set your iron so high with this type of upholstery fabric.  Re-cut the piece, tried to iron on the interfacing again... my interfacing wouldn't stick to the fabric.  Ugh.  So, I threw all the upholstery fabric in the circular file and proceeded to begin all over again with regular cotton fabric.  Then the pattern was incorrect on the pleat placement... I had to do a bunch of modifications.  

Lesson learned, never try a new pattern when you are in a time crunch!  Everything that can go wrong, will!!!!!  

 Vintage buttons from my Grandma Heiden!  
 It turned out cute, but smaller than I had hoped.  

Glad it all came together in the end... I almost gave up on this one!  

No comments:

Post a Comment