Saturday, February 6, 2010

Inspired by Smiggle

I meant to post this just after Christmas, but I was busy being unwell. I do wonder just how long I can use Recovering-From-Pneumonia as an excuse? (I think my current appearance of rude health means that I'm probably pushing it a bit!)

Anyway, Georgia is a big fan of Smiggle (funky stationery shop) and on a quest for small fun things with which to fill her stocking I spotted pencil cases made by spiralling a single zip. Naturally I figured "I could MAKE that!" so I did. I have a bunch of zips from Tamahine's closing down sale (oh how I miss their sales) so put half each of a green one and red one together for this.

Construction is simple, but a bit fiddly. I spiralled the zip into a tube and pinned it, then unzipped it and sewed along the now straight zips.

A couple of end caps hand sewn on (no way was I even TRYING to manoeuvre that under the presser foot!) and it was done.

Unzipped it looks like this:
And zipped it looks like this:
It would have been a better surprise had Georgia not seen the photos on the camera before Christmas, but she loves it anyway. I'm going to buy some zip by the metre from Spotlight so I can make her one long enough for an actual pencil case.

In other news, I went to Miracle this week for more nappy liners, and found I've sold three more things! Two bubble dresses, which seem to be a really good seller, and something else. I was so excited that I forgot to check exactly which things went for my own records. Can you tell I'm very new at this? Time to replenish the stock and work on my new designs...

5 comments:

  1. That is way cool! My brain is having a hard time wrapping around it. Awesome!

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  2. Congratulations on your sales! So glad you are feeling better! I love the pencil case, really cute. You need to do a tute for all of us that are scratching our heads and feeling confused!
    xxx

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  3. I can't quite wrap my head around that, but it is totally cool! I liked the photos of the bubble dresses myself, so i'm not surprised those are good sellers.

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  4. oh that's really clever - I had no idea what you were talking about until the end photo!

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  5. Thats awesome! I love smiggle so I find stuff like this heaps mad!

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