CRAFTY | TRIANGLE PINEAPPLE ZIPPERED POUCH

…Images courtesy of Tamara (of One Craftee Mumma)…

At the beginning of the year there was this thing going around on Instagram asking people to ‘pay it forward’ to 5 people with a handmade gift. I decided that I would participate and put the call out for 5 people that wanted a handmade gift from me in exchange for making a handmade gift for someone else.

One of the people that signed up was Tamara (of One Craftee Mumma) which was awesome because I’d been wanting an excuse to make her a little something for a long time and here was the perfect one.

Tamara is a mad keen cross stitcher and loves to take her work on the road with her (which is smart planning given she’s running around for 3 boys and spends a bit of time out and about).  She was using a ziploc bag to carry all her supplies and current projects around with her so I decided I’d make her a wide mouth zippered pouch for her cross stitching.

She’s currently loving triangles, hot pink, grey and pineapples – which was handy because I happened to have something of everything in my stash.

I’d seen the black and white pineapple fabric a while back when shopping in Addicted to Fabric and had picked up a meter of it because Tamara and I have had a running joke for awhile now that “pineapples are the new black”.

I’d just learned a new way to make HST’s from the course I did with Jenny Bowker in May and I was keen to see if I could translate that into other uses.  I’ve never done improvisational piecing and so I used this project as an excuse to get my improv on.

I used Noodlehead’s open wide zipper pouch tutorial for the construction of the pouch and kind of winged it.

I did a really simple and light quilting over the front of the pouch which I think works. Overall I’m really happy with how it turned out.  I still have areas to improve on (piecing, zippers and time management) but it’s not bad for the second ever zippered pouch I’ve made.

The best thing about it – Tamara uses it. (And she even tells me she loves it!)

I think I’m going to make a few more of these in the coming weeks.  I think they’d make great little stocking fillers. Who knows I might even perfect my zipper sewing skills!