I mentioned in my previous post that I have a lot of fabric. Way too much for a person my age who doesn’t sew many BIG projects.
Earlier this year I made about 50 small, snap pouches and donated them to my church for anyone who needed a small, snap pouch, perhaps for the numerous rosary beads that were donated by another parishioner.
Each took two 4×8 pieces of fabric, one 4×8 piece of fusible fleece, a lobster clip, and a snap. Easy.
In joining the Self-Imposed Sock Club I thought I’d make project bags instead of using paper bags to hold the yarn and patterns. A bit more involved than the little pouches but I have plenty of supplies. The project bags would zip closed to keep everything contained. Maybe I’d even make matching notions bags!
I decided to take inventory of all the zippers in my stash. My discovery was quite startling.
I have 76 16-inch zippers and 118 7-inch zippers all in various colors. These are the regular “clothing” zippers. I also have handbag zippers that are more substantial. Once upon a time I had plans for those zippers but those plans have since changed.
Sewing twelve project bags won’t even make a dent!
What am I going to do with the rest of those zippers?
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So…..you don’t want me to save any zippers from old pant, right? HAHAHAHAHA!
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That is such a Grammy thing!
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Ok, that deserves OMG. I have made several project bags for myself because I prefer zippers over drawstrings. I also made sock sized project bags so I definitely recommend making project bags for socks. That will be soooo pretty to have your 12 projects in beautiful fabric project bags. By the way your pouches look beautiful and what a wonderful idea to use them for rosary beads. Just FYI – I did make some tiny pouches but used velcro for the entire closure width. Makes a perfect change purse and I don’t have to worry about any change coming out of the pouch.
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Maybe I will set up a shop with the project bags and sell them!
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Vermont has local community centric online presence for most towns, called Front Porch Forum. It is an excellent place to give away (or sell) surplus things, including sewing/knitting/ art supplies. I don’t know if there is something comparable where you are, but it would lessen your accumulation!
Beautiful little pouches – I might have to make me one for stitch markers.
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Nothing like that around here that I’m aware of.
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What a great idea!
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Holy cow, woman! I bow before your greatness!
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The greatness will come AFTER I use up all those zippers!
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I wish I had ideas for you!
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So much to love here! The rosary pouches…where can I get some! I buy rosary beads for the kids at school when they get confirmed. Cases would be great! I also think that adding project bags to the challenge is a mega upgrade! I am with Suzie! {{I am not worthy}}
Personally, I am very excited about putting a dent in my stash and my pattern library.
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I just use fabric scraps for those pouches. Do you sew? If not, maybe we can work something out….
I’m still deciding on the sock patterns. I keep seeing more and more I want to knit.
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I used to. I haven’t had a machine in about 10 yrs.
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