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SSSeptember 12th – Camera Strap Tutorial

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Today, I used this accessory.  Well, not actually used, because it has no purpose other than making me smile, but I did carry it around with me for a while!
 
Want to make your own?  Here’s how:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Camera Strap Cover
 
Materials
  • Scant 1/2 Yard of 45″ wide fabric, your choice
  • Matching Thread
Instructions
  • Cut two strips of fabric, each 5″ wide by the width of the fabric. 
  • Fold under 3/8″ on each long edge; press.
  • Fold each strip in half, aligning the pressed edges; press again.
  • Lay the two strips together, with the folded edge of the first one lined up with the pressed edges of the second.
  • Stitch 1/8″ from each long edge; trim threads.
  • Unfasten one end of your camera strap and thread through the fabric tube you just made. Scrunch the strap cover evenly over the web part of your strap; fold in the selvaged edges.  Refasten camera strap and go!

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SSSeptember 11th

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Today I wore this skirt, again.  Why?  Because it’s HOT!  I can hardly wait for fall temperatures to get here.

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Sew What – Project Four

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Yes, project Four.  I so totally skipped project Three because a) I do not like pretty pillows, they make me crazy; b) I was up to my eyeballs in the last minute details of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers Annual Meeting and Conference that I was sort-of in charge of organizing; and c) reverse applique freaks me out.  So, I passed and went straight to Project Four.

If you’re wondering what this is all about, I’ve joined my bloggy friend Cynthia from The Sewing Dork, and her friend Michelle from Until Wednesday Calls for Sew What!, a summer sew-along.  Participants pick their fabric and tackle the challenge projects.   The fourth project is to make something to carry something else – a tote. 

I made a set of shopping bags!  Green and responsible, slapped together from stash fabric acquired from WallyWorld last summer when they closed the fabric department and put EVERYTHING on sale for FIFTY CENTS a yard.  I bought bolts of this stuff.  

Love them!  How fancy schmancy with the toile fabric, and they’re lined with a pink striped fabric.  I made a dozen  bags, enough to schlep several weeks worth of groceries from the store to home.  I was trying out my new bias foot for the sewing machine on the handle trim.  It didn’t work as amazingly as I hoped, so I need to unpick and resew the binding.  You can see where the edges are a little wonky if you zoom in.  On second thought, don’t zoom in.  Just admire my thriftiness and super stylish grocery bags.

That spiffy mesh produce bag?  Nope. Didn’t make that.  I also have a dozen of those, but they were a gift from my equally adamant-about-green-living Mom.   

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