Scrappy Patchy Pouch

There are two things that I find satisfying when sewing.  One is finding a good use for lots of scrappy off-cuts and the second is getting something for nothing.  So this project, which uses both, can't help but please me.  

The scrappy scraps speak for themselves, the patchwork for this pouch was cobbled together out of odds and ends from the scrap pot.  No plan, no order, just sewing bits onto other bits until I had a big enough piece of fabric to make something out of.

The 'something for nothing' was courtesy of the nice people at Coats Crafts* who were kind enough to send me this rather cute and clever lacy zipper.  I've seen these pretty little zippers before so I was very happy to say that yes, I did indeed think I might be able to find a use for them.

They duly sent me about a meter length of this zip and the clever part is, you just cut it to the size you require.  Kind of handy that I thought.  The only draw back being that it only had two of the little zipper pulls which you use for the opening and closing, which is rather limiting if you only make small things, like I tend to do.  So a great deal of my generous length zip will no doubt be wasted.

They also kindly sent me an informative leaflet suggesting ways in which to use the zips which I must admit I found faintly alarming.  Call me conventional but I think I'll stick to more traditional uses for now.

I do like that you don't have to worry too much about the difficulties of stitching a zip into a project.  Very handy for zip novices like me.  These ones just sit nicely on top so are much easier to cope with and I love the decorative element.  What I'd really love though is if it had one of those pretty little zip pullers that you sometimes see.  That would really make it wouldn't it?

As usual, of course, the most enjoyable part was playing with the patchwork pieces and fitting them together.  It was a little bit like a jigsaw really, except with this type of jigsaw, you can always cut the pieces down a bit to fit!

Now I just need to find a use for my pretty little pouch.
But somehow I don't suppose that'll be too hard.

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Oh, and before I go, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for your fabulous response to my new Daisy Puffagons Tutorial, you are always so awesome and supportive and gosh darn super!


S x

*This is not a sponsored post.

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