January Sewing Cases

(I thought I posted this last week but find I did not.)

One of my goals this year is to make and offer more sewing cases. In the years immediately following the release of Fanciful Utility, I was making an assortment of sewing cases, boxes, and accessories regularly. When I started focusing on straw millinery, I began neglecting this branch of interest. I found going back and forth between the two types of sewing difficult and managing the very different materials was messy. Now, I am hoping rotating between sewing straw and sewing fabric will give my hands a break. (And I will figure out the organized mess.)

Anyway. I created a sewing case each week/weekend this month. Each is made with silk interiors and upcycled leather exteriors. They are bound with cotton sateen ribbon. Two have pasteboard boxes. Two have “book” style pincushions with layers of wool and cotton inside. The wool needle pages are pinked on my antique pinking machines and lightly embroidered.

I tried to price these sewing cases at a point that was affordable. Each one took 9-11 hours to make, working by hand.

You will notice three of these are photographed in a different spot in my home. This is because I have an original straw bonnet set up in my regular photo space. I need the bright light as I very slowly stitch the fractured straw back together.