Wednesday 5 August 2015

There's A Right Way Of Doing Things...

... And there's a wrong way. The photo below will demonstrate both. 


My face must have been a treat when I got the pouch almost finished and realised I had the zip pull on the inside of the pouch. After verbally lambasting myself, I got out the seam ripper and made it good. The verbal lambast was a good one though. 

Now I have a finished pouch that is useable. 


Useable is good. 

I fussy cut a bunch of 1.5" squares for the strip down each side, so that they finished at 1" each. To add a bit of interest I stitched in the ditch with 12w aurifil, and added a couple more lines of stitching on the cream and purple Essex linens. Used. 


It's not as quick a finish as I would have liked due to the numpty factor, but it is a finish and I can show you, and Helen can stop asking me for a birthday present for her friend. Job done! 

Susan 



13 comments:

  1. Join the numpty club! we've all done that but most of us aren't brave enough to post about it.

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  2. It's a lovely finish, and I understand the frustration factor well. Lucky birthday recipient!

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  3. I'm with Brenda.......been there, done that .....and will no doubt do it again....and again.....

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  4. "Numpty factor" - you got me laughing with that, Susan. Seriously, how can one sew without having that factor? ;o)

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  5. Bu**er! Glad you could rescue it - it's brilliant!

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  6. how frustrating but looks like you fixed it just fine. I had to read the post to figure out what was wrong with it ...

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  7. Well done for getting a grip, unpicking and doing it right! Too often my mistakes get flung against a wall and left to gather dust in a dark corner!

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  8. Lovely pouch, but you shouldn't tell the world about the bloopers! If you kept shutm no one would have known :0

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  9. It would have been a good sleeping bag for a small creature. He/she could zip-up from the inside.

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  10. Ilaughed twice on this one once on Instagram and now reading this blog post

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  11. Mwahahahahaaaa. Love Andrew's reply.

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