I indulged today in trying two new crafts and I can honestly say I wish I hadn't bothered. They both seemed like good ideas at the time and the tutorials very straightforward however I've been fooled by simple tutorials before.
I'm only going to share one of my disasters as I am hoping to start again with the second one and do it right. So disaster 1, as it shall now be named, was inspired by the latest pinterest craze that is making a clutch bag from a book. Easy right? Wrong. Can I just encourage you lovely folk if you want the perfect clutch book bag just head over to notonthehighstreet.com and treat yourself - much more rewarding than a pile of fabric glued to a book.
Anyway back to disaster 1. I had measured everything perfectly and even happened to have the right sized zip. All the sewing parts went seamlessly - excuse the pun - but my biggest mistake was using cheap fabric glue. You can see the offender sat in the corner of one of my pictures, mocking me. I've used it before for small projects but trusting it on this bad boy was probably a bit naive.
It holds the fabric but only after you have cuddled it for three hours, sung it a nursery song and allowed it to suck your nipples. Ok perhaps a little melodramatic but it is annoying. Equally if you don't have the steadiest hand there is the high possibility of it shooting out of the nozzle all over either yourself or your unsuspecting dog. Not good. So although I like to think of myself as an optimist I'm not sure I'm going to be able to salvage the clutch book bag. And I don't even like breaking books for craft. What a waste!
I have learned to invest more wisely in proper materials if I want the job doing properly though.
Every cloud and all that.
Which book did you use?
ReplyDeleteOne from a charity shop. A modern still in publication book. It was painful.
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