Sewing Highs

This is a bit of a two part post really.

This first bit, as the title suggests, is going to cover the sewing highs.  Well, the sewing that went how I planned more or less at least.

We'll come back to the picture at the top in a moment, but first I just have a little quickie to show you.  It's yet another phone case, this time I slightly adapted my usual pattern for a smaller style of phone.

I think it worked out quite nicely.  I must admit to being rather happy at seeing those fussy cut little birds looking at each other lovingly on the flap.

It's a little gift for someone in the family, so I do hope that they are pleased with it too.  

Let's go back to that top photo now.  I've been pondering this idea for a while.
I don't know if it bothers you as much as it bothers me, but it does annoy me greatly to see strewn about the place all of the millions of remote controls it seems necessary to have in a modern home.  We currently have five of the blighters clogging up surfaces, chairs, sofa crevices, window sills and any other of the numerous places they seem to find their way to.

It's like an infestation of battery controlled ugliness, polluting my living room and destroying my soul.  Ok, maybe slightly over the top, but you get my drift.  They are generally speaking, a pain.  A very necessary pain, but still.  So, I have been mulling over a way to marshall these plastic horrors into some kind of order.

It's taken so long because I couldn't really come up with any plan that totally satisfied.  But in the end, I settled on making a little basket for them to sit in.  At least they would always be in one place and easy to find, with the added benefit of being housed in, and from some angles obscured by, something pretty.
  

 I used this tutorial by Ayumi at Pink Penguin and it came together beautifully.  I love the fabrics, which will work well in my living room and it was a fab tutorial.

I think I'm happy with it.  I'm happy with the basket certainly.
I'm not completely sold on it being the right remote control storage solution, for want of a less daft way of putting it.

It's ok.  It looks better than having them all haphazard everywhere but I'm not sure how it looks on my little table in the picture just above here.

What do you think?

I'm not sure I'm happy with the handles flapping about everywhere like that.  I kind of think it looks a little messy with them.  Maybe I should have left them off.

On the other hand, it's a great help at dusting time.  I can lift them all up in one go and flick my duster with ease.  That part, I definitely like.

S x

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