Welcome to Week 17 of the One Yard Wonders Sew Along!
Week 17– Project 40
Planner Sleeve – designed by Helen Ringrose page 111
Carrie, taking a page from Diana’s book, selected 3 fabrics. Timeless Treasures Allover Letters Neutral, Michael Miller Fabrics Ta Dot Candy, and Michael Miller Fabrics Tiny Gingham Aqua.
Materials Needed:
8″ x 18″ piece of cotton batting
1 yard of 1/2″ double fold bias tape
Closure of choice: Velcro, 1 button, or 48″ length of ribbon
Sewing machine walking foot (optional)
Carrie’s Tips and Thoughts
- Simple to follow pattern and fun to make.
- Carrie made her own bias binding and used fusible fleece in place of cotton batting.
- She is going to use the Planner Sleeve to give a gift of handmade cards. Other possibilities include recipes, photos, kids drawings, sewing notions to name a few.
- This pattern would be easy to re-size and re-purpose. Create envelopes of any size by keeping your over all measurement divisible by 3. How about a cover for a Nook or I Pad? Make it tiny and use for gift cards. A food friendly lining and you have a reusable sandwich bag. The options are endless.
Wonder Under and rubber stamps make a great handmade card. Iron Wonder Under to your fabric, peal back and iron to card-stock, trim “package” to desired size. Stitch ribbon/bow on the package with your sewing machine. Attach to card with mounting tape. Rubber stamp your greeting and you have a beautiful card.
Week 17 – Project 41
Not-Ugly Car Trash Bag – designed by Jessica Vaughan page 113
Cindy chose 3 fabrics. Ann Kelle Ready Set Go Cars Lime ORGANIC , Carolyn Gavin Spring Street Stripe Orange and Michael Miller Basics Ta Dot Moss.
Materials Needed:
One 1″ parachute buckle (sometimes called a quick release clip) such as Dritz #470
Cindy’s Tips and Thoughts
- The pattern was fast, easy to follow and understand.
- A “one hour” project. Good for beginners.
- Cindy didn’t make any changes.
- She made the bag to go in her daughters car for her boys.
Cindy said this Not-Ugly Trash Bag is much too cute for trash….maybe toys, coloring books and pencils, or diapers & wipes for the baby would be a great use for this fun project.
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I love the Trash Bag but it is too pretty for trash!!
Great results this week!
Once again, great job!
both projects turned out really wonderful! I need to get myself started and do some of these ~ loving the car bag ~
Not what I had pictured for a planner sleeve, but very cute and versatile! And I LOVE that car fabric in the second project!
Great tip about resizing the envelope planner cover for other uses. And I love the idea for the Not-Ugly car trash bag being used to stow away items in the car. It is definitely too cute for trash!
Cute, cute, cute! Love the self made binding tapes.
sooo cute!
I had to laugh! My first thought, too, was that bag was much too cute for trash!
Love your news letters and web page. I am always looking for new looks and you have them all.
Thank you! Kathi B
Those one yard wonders are really making my sewing senses tingle!
Great fabric choices for these!
These both turned out so cute (and love the handmade card idea). I especially like how the car bag turned out – I think this one is on my soon-to-do list…I agree that it’s too cute for trash!
Both projects turned out great and are so useful!
How very lovely! I love your choices of fabrics, both of you.
I especially like the Planner Sleeves, for 2 reasons – Helen is a friend, and this is a colourway I would totally have chosen for myself
But the car trash bag is super fun and cute, and I bet it will get you and your car’s inhabitants many a smile
The new fabrics are wonderful!
That is adorable! Love the prints
love the finished projects, looking great!
love it!
Good work on these projects.
I love how their projects came out and the fabrics really made them more special.
Debbie
Working on a crazy quilt and small embroidery collages with small bits of fabric for the summer.
What fun projects!!
LOVE the birthday cards! I’m seeing those in my future!
It was so nice after the review of the sleeve for Carrie to add some card making ideas!
That trash bag is adorable but I agree to cute for trash!
I love the not-ugly-trash-bag. It would be great for holding the paraphenalia in our van: maps, leashes, and odds and ends.
I absolutely love those! Great fabric picks! I should really make that car thing…
The planner sleeve will be a perfect gift for my grandkids’ teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week, my daughter gives them each a gift a day during the whole week, I can make up two for Fridays gift and stick some cards in….thank you for the great idea and instructions….
Again, these are so lovely! I also love the card ideas!!!
I love the cards ! These are great ideas for a personalized birthday card. The fabrics for the planner sleeve work very well together — I love the aqua !
I’ve been following the sewalong for a couple of weeks now but it was so lovely to see my planner sleeve pattern being made! I love the fabric choices – and the fact you have come up with so many other uses for it!
This web site is my inhalation , rattling excellent layout and perfect subject material .
I just happened upon this post and was wondering where to find the pattern for the cute ‘trash’ bag. Please feel free to e-mail me your reply. Thanks.