This was a fun project but I don’t know how many hours I spent on it. I even don’t want to know that. It is just I make some steps with my girl watching me, and I watching her, and some steps late at nights. But the important thing is, that I make all the stitches and I even did put all the steps for finished it. I don’t know why I start this so big project, because I never have a handmade quilt by myself, so this is really my first. I did like the idea, and the bears are so cute, and it is one of the first projects for my year class that I did take. All I want is just learn some new stuff and I did start with this project.

I will admit, I did learn some stuff but the most important stuff are hidden; the experience, the only think that you can’t describe and that is just yours. Fabulous. Totally handmade, ok with some free motion embroidery floss stitches, and some with a machine stitches. I have my machine almost 3 years and this is the first project that I did use one off stitches for the bear appliqué face. So now definitely I know how to use this stitch. Isn’t that great?

So now I need to start doing some other project from a tutorial class because the finished plan is to have at least 10 new finished projects form it and with all possibilities for future projects. This is the fun part of learning something new. You could go on a different level and you could incorporate some of your previous experience, the best thing ever.

I totally forgot the main point of writing this post. We plan to move in a bigger apartment, and we need some new stuff for it. For now I’m still just a 24/7 mom and I can’t d0 anything for our relocation and don’t feel good about this. So I did have an idea that if I’m here and I can’t do anything I could at least do some fabric projects for this. This quilt is just one of it.

OK I need to admit, that I want to do more, but for now I can’t and my bigger projects that I want to do; are some like making a dining room table, a couch, closet for main bedroom…and everything that I need to have in my garage-workshop-space. I won’t tell you how much I want to go there, but for all this I need to be on different address and here I don’t have a space for something similar.

So yey, we will move, not soon, but we will be there some day. With nice view, my and just mine workshop space, green house and a little bit of vegetable garden, with high roof ceilings. Dreamy. O, and with a roof terrace.

So I don’t work by the book, so I did change a shape in to tall house with a big roof with one window. Nothing hard, just with a few mistakes. You know the experience are the magical thing that I need to have. No, that I did make my first house I have a few. First I did plan to have a tall hause because I did plan to use it for my kid, actualy for her sun glasses. Just a pouch with a strap so she could go in a kindergarden with it and if she needet a glasses she will know where they are. Simple. But my first mistake is, that I did recycle the wrong zipper. I should use a smaller teth zipper, but hey I didn’t know that.

I was also so curius how it will be assembled togheter so I didn’t sew all the appliqe that I did plan to do.

But for the sewing itself; about the assembled part, I couldn’t belive how simple it is. You could finish in a few minutes. Really. So simple. Of course I like the fact that you use the lining inside and that all the seams are hiden. I like that.

At the end I did learn something new, get a new experience, and my kid have a new sunglases pouch. Not bad. Also I could use this as a new experience in a handbag sewing with my new project – learning making and wearing handbags. I did get a fabolous book and I did plan to make a few bags in a different styles, so I could learn some new stuff. But first I need to finish one bag that I plan to make it for my buggy. Then I have a plan to make one super small bag more as a arm wrist wallet. I have huge plans for this. So I do sew a little, mybe just not the right project, but I do sew, and I still have so much in my mind what I should do.

PS I still didn’t descovered what exactly Zakka Style mean. I like it I like the projects and I learn with it, even without the book. Yes, this is my main chalange. It is just fun; and It is special fun if you finis a project in one day. I usualy do more and I usualy totaly forgot in a lot of open project in the way.

 I was thinking that hey, I could learn some new sewing stuff if I will sew some new projects, just late ant night, easy sewing and having fun. You know why doing everything from the zero point and making designs and thinking about constructions and measurements? Why not something like in style “monkey see, monkey do”. Not just that. You or I, yes, I could learn something new on this road; I don’t mind to get a new experience and to learn new stuff. Hey, this is fun part of living. So why not? OK, this was not the fun part, but it will be the next one:

The first project is a zig zag tote; the gorgeous functional tote. I don’t have a book with instructions so I was doing this by myself just with a final visual photo of finished tote. It was a challenge to me how the zig zag is made. I’m not a quilter, and this was my first project like that, and I’ m not good at all. Really it is so simple design; all you need to do is just sewing triangles together. But hey, it is not as easy as it looks like. My triangles all over the place and the corners are not really accurate…but the most important I was having fun. It is fun, but I will admit I still don’t know how to align the two triangles to get the perfect zig zag at the end. The best part for me was that for this you don’t need to iron when you sew (you just make a finger press for every seam), but at the end, the ironing is the must do. For me (I almost never iron), this is something “do I really need to?”…

I also didn’t know how big the triangles should be, so I did sew 2 more in one road, just in case I will needed them latter. But at the end, the road was too long, and I didn’t want to cut it away. So I did play with my “new zig zag fabric”, and then I grab my pencil and make sketch of new shape. So this project while I writing it is not finished, because I need to iron first (it is too late, and I don’t want to make a noise because my girls are in beds….) I like the process of doing some new stuff and having fun with new decisions and at the end you get something different. Actually I just want to write it down, that I did get a new idea for new tote shape, and hey maybe I will make it also for the tutorial girl shop? Not with the zig zag, but with everything else. Why not? I was thinking to learn new purse designs and I have a plan to sew first a little with already made patterns and then when I will have some practice and new skills and experience, I will design my own bags, totes, and all in between. I already did make a few bags in my past, but I never really didn’t learn from others. So this will be my new projects, to learn from others and then to go on a different level with my own designs but with few new experiences.

What else is new and will be here soon? O, yes, I’m working, ok I’m finishing a new Tutorial Girl Style Buggy Bag – for colder months (Yes, I should do this five months ago, but hey, life happened and I didn’t.) It has really nice shape and I can’t wait to show you more. But before I totally finish I also plan to make a Bag for Buggy stuff… I need a name for it.

PS why it is so hard to turn a computer off and do something with a fabric or some art? Why it is so important to read and to write and to just be connected to the world? How not if it is crafty, design or just pure art? It is all fun part of our lives.

This is something that I did for a boy who love tractors and all cars that you could imagine. My idea was to have a coloring book inside my “fabric bag” together with a blank book for his illustrations. I also did put the handles on the sides and elastic for easy closure, after all it was for somebody who has just 4 years.

I was in a hurry and I didn’t found the tutorial on the Google (I know I didn’t search long enough). So I’m not sure if I did see similar tutorial with all the elements that I did place them here, but I think I did make one version by my memory maybe from different sites. Really don’t remember. At the end I did realize I need to make one more for my little girl, and I will make it with wider pen pockets, so my girl will have a place for crayons too. But because this is so fun and funky maybe I will make one more for myself for my art journaling too. The most important, if you like it, now here is my version of tutorial; and I’m sure you will get an idea of some extra pocket…have fun.

Just two picture of finished fabric coloring book.

PS I did use a serger, but you don’t need it. If you will watch the picture, you will see that most of the seams are even not visible…so use a zig zag stitch instead. I was just too lazy to thing ahead where I need to make finished seam and where not. This is actually so simple project that I was playing with my kid when I did make this, so it is totally perfect for beginner.

	All the fabric pieces that you need for the project; with one that I didn’t have on this picture (the rectangle on the center where the book is place in to the fabric cover.1. Front Cover; background fabric (a little bigger then your blank book is) + 1 cm on all sides for seam allowance2. Inside Flaps; the same size then 1. just cut in the center (for the inside cover)3. Handles; you could use string instead4. Pencil Pocket rectangle; with 1 cm for seam allowance on all sides)5. Inside Pockets (the bigger is placed on back cover for a coloring book (this two are optional)
	From scraps of fabric I did make a name letters for Miha. I did use double sided fabric glue (you iron the paper with glue on the fabric, and then cut the letters and then peel the paper off and iron letters on fabric).
	Cut the letters from fabric.
	Zig zag sewing on the letters edges.
	On right there are two handles before I did turn them around. Other pieces are just serged on all edges.
	All steps of making pencils pockets:1. Make nice finished edge, because here will be a lot of traffic with pencils in and out 2. Place the pencil on fabric and fold it, so you will see how high the pockets will be. Make the edge seam on both sides 1 cm from the edge; turn the pocket around. 3. Drawing lines for sewing smaller pockets 4. Finished Pencil Pockets.
	Turn around the handles. I did sew the smaller Inner Pockets on an Inside Pockets so I will be able to put the coloring book inside of the back pocket. (White arrow). The Black arrow shows that I will flop over the edge (1-2 cm) of the center fabric and then I will make a seam. Look at the next picture.
	Finished Insides Covers and Pencil Pockets.
	On the Finished Cover pin both handles and also 2 cm wide elastic.
	Make a seam 0.5 cm form the edge. Now it is good time to sew the Pencil Pockets like on the picture.
	Place Inside Covers on the Green Cover right side on right side. Like on next picture.
	On the center of the fabric cover sandwich is one more rectangle fabric piece that is wider then the hole between both Inside Covers. This part is good for nicer finished edge on the center of the Fabric Cover (the place where the book will be inside of fabric flaps). Make seam all-around 1 cm form the edge.
	Before you will turn around the entire “fabric mountain” cut the 4 corners so you will reduce the fabric bulk. Then place two Cardboards on both sides so the flaps will be nicer and not so soft. At the last go to a store for a new book and pencils and don’t forget to enjoy.

I did make my first serger mittens because they are fun and I did want a challenge. And now I did make a new pattern a dress for a toddler with pants that have a moon bottom finished. I like this detail. For this tutorial I did recycle an old adult sweater, but because this pattern is so fun and so simple I plan to make some more also for the colder version with jersey (for summer dress). So this is really pattern for new serger user and useful for all year around…just depends what kind of fabric you will use.

Also I like the look of the serger seam visible on the front of the dress…this is so nice, I just love it.

Will you play with me? OK; this will be my first giveaway this year and all you need to do is to go to my tutorial girl shop and look around and then leave me a comment what do you like to see there in the future. Or you could just leave me a note what you like and what kind of pattern do you want to see more.

I will pick somebody at the end of the March and the prize is a new pattern.

PS, I’m a little foxy because this post is not titled with GIWAWAY; but it is, if you will read it.

Also your serger experiences are welcome here.

Just something small about product photography and kids in action; I don’t know how to shoot it.

And something small from my girl: She like to dance in the kindergarten, and today she came to me with this: “Mommy I like my dress; and I could dance and I could turn around in it.” … my best translation; but she really make me smile the first think in the morning.

I found Craftsy just by pure luck, and now I’m there with my pattern shop….yey.

I will have there my Tutorial Girl patterns, the same that I have it on Etsy and on DaWanda, but I’m exited, because this site is new, at least new with offering patterns from different designers. The best think is that I’m one of them; so supper exited and super busy with a lot of copy paste work in this week and in a few future weeks. For now I did manage to place there my 4 designs, but I will have them all; all I need is just time.

 But this is not all what I’m working on. OK, I did learn a few new stuff about quilting, and I need to admit that I like it. It is just a lot of fun, and a lot of work and it helps if you have more room and bigger sewing table than I have it right now. Also a lot of time, that helps too.

For now for me the biggest thing is that I did finally decided to make a new chapter in my shoe design department. So I will learn and work on my old designs. It’s is not that I need to improve them, at least not the process of sewing. I plan to improve them just a little, just the small things and the bigger plan was the fact that I want to have different sizes for my models. So, more people will be able to have them for themselves. I did want to learn the shoe grading from internet and from books, but I didn’t found a lot of information, and I will need to make everything myself with a lot of errors and new trials. But it will be fun and it is time to learn new thinks.

Finally; I also have a new meted on a horizon, and I’m totally exited about that too. I plan to learn from others. Maybe you don’t know that I did learn to design my shoes just from errors and new mistakes; I didn’t have a chance to work on shoe design with a shoe master. So for this spring I will learn new skills in shoe making from two different sources. One is a Japans slippers book, and one is from a commercial vintage shoe pattern. My plan is to learn the process off making there shoes, and then with new knowledge, I will stat designing new Tutorial Girl Style Designs. Totally exited, and can’t wait, to start this journey.

Stay tuned and I will tell you more about my progress. But for the first job, I need to resize my baby and woman retro leather shoe. I already start this project, and I did make a first new prototype form felt for 25 size and one for my baby slippers. I did play here with my wooden shoe last from Kopitarna Sevnica, and what a super fun job….but this is for my next post topic. Just want to tell you how fun it is.

What a fun sewing like coloring by numbers. Interested, and I did wonder how it is to draw a pattern and it is a challenge I need too admit. The hardest part is that everything needs to be drawn on lines from point A to point B without a single curve. I did want to have a teapot, but at the end maybe this look more like a milk pot…but it was fun, and the big secret is to iron all the stitches that you make. For somebody who doesn’t iron, this could be challenge too.

This are some pictures from the process but the finished piece is still waiting, because I have more option what to do with the piece and I didn’t decided yet; too many options. The biggest question is should I tear the paper off before sewing or should I put a batting or not. What to do next?

PS, what do you think at my first picture? What the mess is this? Why I want to show it? It was interested how what will look the end sewn piece when you make all the smaller pieces and you can’t see a thing, so interested. Will you try?

“Look What I Learn” or. Where Are My Wavy Serger Seams? Maybe this is better question. This is my first finished project form a super fun and the best workshop ever; STITCHED … this is something that is on my mind lately and I admit I will and I did learn a lot just with watching all the videos there and I also plan to make all that project, so this year will be super sewing fun for me. Actually I’m so happy that I did finally found people who are interested in the same thing and I could learn from them, and I mean learn a lot. All the video tutorials are so fun and so new that I actually don’t know what to do first, because I want to try all of them.

This bag is made from old recycle sweaters and I did change a pattern (it is something old from me), but I did make it with serger and boy I love my serger. It is so fun machine, and I need to learn about it so much more. The bag is actually the small shoulder bag, but I plan to make one more much bigger. But for this I did use just one sleeve from two sweaters and pink felt for lining and a little print fabric strap. I admit, I did use felt with overlook the first time. Actually I recycle the sweater in to the bag first time to.

I’m so happy that I finally did found a Second Hand shop inLjubljana, so useful. But I didn’t know that I don’t know how to sew a wavy overlook edge with my machine. I will admit that I did think this is the only way that you could do it if you work with sweater knits, but my seams are not wavy at all and I did want to have them. So I need to learn this too, and then just play with my closet and recycle everything that I could found there. I can’t wait to start thinking about new patterns. Just really want to have waves there. Where are when you need them? Any advice? Please.

But this is not always bad thing. Yesterday I want to make a butterflies for my kid shoe (because this are the only one that I didn’t make them for myself and one kid from her kindergarten group have the same), but a little bigger so they mixed them. So, I did want to make a Kanzashi butterflies but I didn’t like them. They are simple to make, but it look’s like I should pick different fabric for better result. So I did ask myself the big “mixed media question”. What if?

Simple and quick answer is, play a little with acrylic colors on denim fabric, cut the shape, zig zag the edge, and make one zig zag edge one more time and that is it. For 3D shape, use some string and a few plastic pearls that I have in my stash. So simple that kid could do it. But the effect was marvelous. The big thing is, that because I did use 2 fabrics pieces one on top of each other this give me a steady form that is easy to transform it in to 3D form. So, I will show you an example and then I need to found more advanced project to make, maybe something with lampshade…yes, I like the idea, acrylic, old denim jeans, and lighting, all with a lot of zig zag stitching and free motion stitching too, and then I could make also a fabric bowl for our new place, and maybe a table napkin?

This is my BW with a little duotone in a foggy day here inLjubljana. Yes, people here are looking like a little bit foggy, and everybody are in black coats, or skiing jackets. I so need to make a new coat for me, because this winter I don’t want to be in black, so for now I have just super red mittens on my hands, and my smaller kid is also in the same red jump suit. Jap, I don’t have enough time for all, so I don’t have enough time to sew, and to playing with colors (for this I need to wait when Lana will stop tasting all things around her, and then we will play with colors even in 3D). OK, at least the plans are good.

PS, I have a feeling I will became good at postproduction with all this small baby steps….and maybe in English too? Yea, I wish.