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Its time for another little magic!!!

While talking about styles and occasions its not limited to something big. It could be as small as a family getting together. And it does take some effort in keeping things in place, making house look beautiful or atleast presentable. Think about all those small things which usually find place in plastic bundles, and thrown into cupboards for "time being". These bundles are forever left there, until we realize there is something you can't find and assume, it could be in those bundles. Oh! imagine all the trouble undoing the bundles, pouring all the things and searching within the unkept garbage :(.
In my previous post I spoke about using old cloth to make useful little mats and today I will talk about how we can make little pouches for keeping similar small things in place and avoiding misplacing them.
Here's my trick, you can use your own ideas to make this better.
I had two cut pieces of a jeans pant. I got these pieces while altering the pant to proper length.

Normal scenario - you would throw those pieces.

These pieces were around 6inches long and stitched on both sides.I just stitched one end each of these pieces together. Then folded them at the center, where I joined the two pieces together. This showed up two open sides. My idea was to make this my cosmetic pouch. So I slid different cosmetic items, like mascara, lipstick etc., With that as measurement simply tucked on. This created smaller spaces within the pouch to hold items. And this is what I got:

Past few weeks, I got into some serious sewing. My mood was to make something different. A Handbag. This is my first time. Thus I went doing some visual survey. How different handbags or purses looked, sort of fabric used, padding etc., etc., There are just so many varieties in them. I looked for them in various shops, online and also peeped into my own collection. So I decided how I would like my handbag to look.
For the fabric I just sorted through my mom's old and unused cutouts of saree blouse pieces. I purchased some polypad for the padding. I did not even know it was known as polypad :D, when I told the seller I wanted some quilt padding, he asked me if that was polypad and I nodded as if I was an expert there. Its interesting how new projects can educate us about new things available in the market.


 And then what else, as I said earlier I got into some serious cutting and stitching. The actual pattern was supposed to be a straight line on top but because of some cutting mistakes its got a semi square dip. Thanks to lazygirldesigns which saved my day. I got the idea to add a different color in between and also do the extra shape in between by looking at their  Gracie handbag. ( You can look into their handbag patterns here- http://www.lazygirldesigns.com).

With those subtle colors I can now use this handbag during summer with any cotton clothes. Its got huge space (size of a macbook) to hold accessories and its also got pockets within to hold money, pens etc., That's going to surely match the seasonal style, without looking bulky it would come so handy.

I made the little flower that's on the handbag. I will write another post on how I made it in future

Did you like my handbag, let me know by leaving a comment below.

Thankie ;)

Also check my  first post.