pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

This is my second messenger bag ever. It uses two of my custom designed fabrics: Cherry Vanilla Plaid and Ice Cream Stripe . I'll be putting it up for sale in my Etsy shop pretty soon.

I made this journal from scratch using a swatch of my fabric that features my cat Richard on the cover. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to make a journal although it was a bit time consuming. I used regular computer paper that I folded in half individually and sewed together in small stacks of ten or eleven sheets using my sewing machine. (I kept the pages together with binder clips while sewing together) This step took a good long while as my sewing machine had to be hand cranked in order for it to make it through the stacks. Once I had completed four stacks I sewed two together, and then the other two together in order to get two now larger stacks. This took awhile as the needle can only go through the holes that the machine had already made, and it took a bit of effort and a sturdy thimble to do that.  After that I repeated the process with my stitches spaced way out and doubled to get the final stack. Then I used the stack to determine the ...