pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

Okay, so it's been awhile since I have posted any real projects, but I've been busy crafting for my ren faire outfit. This is my first time going to one of these events so I pretty much started from scratch. Everything has been rolling along and falling into place, and now I'm finally ready to start posting some pictures. I'll start with my bag: This backpack is made from the fabric I had after making the dress. It wasn't really part of the plan, but the thought of this fabric languishing in a drawer unused was too much. I started hunting around for smallish projects that I could make and I stumbled across this pin on Pinterest. It brought me to this tutorial.  The fact that I was working with scraps meant that I had to dig into my stash and tweak the pattern to really make a project this size work. It feels good to create something like this without buying a single thing! The red brocade came from the underskirt. This one is my favorite fabric, but it was...

My cell phone and its new home! I'm always trying to do something new with my fabrics, and this is my newest project. It's a cell phone case that features my Cupcakes  design on upholstery weight twill, and some of the lightweight, polyester, crepeback satin fabric I got on E-bay. And I used magnetic beads from an old necklace that I broke forever ago to make the flap closure.  The neat thing about this case is that it's reversible. I'm actually kind of proud of it since I did it all from my own little head. (Using other people's patterns isn't ever as fun as making your own.) Cupcake side with cell phone Black side out  with cell phone A peek inside, Cupcake side out Closer look at the bead closer look at the Closer look at the back cupcakes Full view Black side out- front