Monday, July 12, 2010

Visiting Poet Charms

This weekend I went to visit Lisa from PoetCharms, who also has an awesome Etsy store, and got a intro to sewing course from her. Our project for the afternoon, reversible totebag. They're square. They're simple. And they're useful. Works for me.

The week before I had taken a trip to Joanne Fabrics and scored some really cute cotton prints for the bag, fruit and polka dots, oh yeah.

Arriving at Lisa's house was like walking into crafting heaven. There was not one, but TWO craft rooms. Two rooms filled with cloth, and yarn and thread, and ribbons, and a million other things, just waiting to be turned into something awesome.

Once I was done drooling, we got to work, and thanks to Lisa (and her mom's) patient coaching, and occasional teasing, I ended up with an epically awesome (and HUGE) tote bag. Once I got home and had used it for a day or two I realized I was loosing my phone in the vastness of the bag so I threw on some pockets inside and out and here's the end result of lesson one in remembering how to sew!