[L]ooks like I have a new interest, again!!!

After being madly obsessed with felt wool stuff.. I have currently developed a new interest -- sewing... Not that I have ditched my felt wool stuff aside, I still stab once in a while just not as frequent when my hype about it started... My current new interest came by when I was doing my window shopping online, I came across a few sites that sells handmade handbags and it suddenly struck me that how cool will it be if I could make my own bag.. okay, I admit i will not be reaching that level, not until... maybe 5 years of hard work or something but... a pouch would be nice... so i happily shared the website telling people that it is so cool to be able to make your own bag...

Then, a friend from work told me about a sewing workshop that is providing classes for beginners... the best thing was, it is near home!! and of course, i am still in the hype, so i enrolled myself in... that's the problem about being single.. you have just too much time, you tend to be involved in things like this... Oh well... sewing ain't too bad...

Just had my first class and I was taught to sew a key pouch...

It all started on a fine non-working day... i arrived at the workshop.. and was greeted by the shopkeeper who took out a few pieces of fabrics for me to choose...

When I started with my project, another girl came in and looked really familiar.. we stared at each other for a good 5 seconds to confirm that we actually work in the same company but different departments.. we would bump into each other during toilet breaks..

anyway, coincidental stories aside...

It all started like this... 4 different kind of fabrics to be sewed and ironed on each other...

Then to sew the sides to hide the opening of the layers... whatever that it. sorry I am not very good at describing processes..

Since I can't really explain... behold, pictures!!

    

All these were done using the sewing machine which was much different than the one I have at home.. Mine is the old traditional one that does not require electricity and you can control the rhythm of the sewing by the pace of your pedaling... which basically means, the faster i pedal the fast it sews and vice versa... but the one used here is the modern one... *feeling really old now* you can't really control the rhythm unless you are really familiar with the machine and hence... the very untidy stitches...

And now, we reached the hardest part of all... the zip!!!!

The hard part is I will have to hand sew the zip onto the base... the sewing part is fine.. but remember that there were 4 layers of fabrics and with the zip it makes 5 layers of not-very-thin fabrics which makes the needle hard to be stabbed through... i pricked my fingers a few times while doing this... yikes!!

   

And then, i am almost done... Now I will have to sew the pouch together...

Which is not very hard compared to the zip but I kinda misunderstood the instructions and hence... untidy stitches... again~~~


and then.. we insert the ring into the pouch and voilaaaaa....

It's done!!!! the stitches were very messy but my very first, very own key pouch~~
I think i have spent around 6 hours making this... the hand sew part is torturous!!! my fingers still hurt by just thinking of this... oh well...

I sure hope I could achieve something here... maybe by being able to make my own pouch by the end of the year!!


That's all folks!

Signing off!!
Toodles!