Feminine Apron with Gathered Skirt and Wide Shoulder Straps

Side track sikit after a few bag projects.

Been wanting to do an apron so with one of Aishah's batik Terengganu I followed my heart desire to make one.

I choose this pattern for it's comfort. The wide shoulder strap is far more comfortable to have on than the usual string straps. The shoulder strap is also attached to the back waist band eliminating the need to pull over one's head with the normal string apron. Furthermore, this one is a bit fancy with gathered skirts for a more flirting look with a modest size bib. It has two large pockets big enough to hold a recipe flip book or other electronic gadgets to take along to the kitchen.



P/S - Pardon the photo shoot. I wanted to have a photo of a person with the apron on to show it's femininity but I don't think any of my boys would want to model it :D

Flat Zippered Purse with Handle

Fell in love with this flat purse when I first saw it at Etsy. Just had to figure out on assembling the pieces so that raw edges are not visible. Well after comparing methods from two tutorials I found at Blogger I kinda mix the methods and voila.

I'm comfortable with the method of doing it, it's just that it's so hard when working with interfacing. For the fabric I used here which is batik Terengganu, the cotton is quite thin so I figured the purse would not have the form which I wanted. So along came the interfacing. But that's just it with interfacing, especially for small projects as this purse where you have to turn in inside out and all over, the hard interfacing just makes it more difficult.

The purse is roomy enough to function as wallet, phone or camera holder. The large, stiff handle is perfect for hanging it to the wrist.

Well the plan is to match these purses to the larger tote bags. Well this one matches my earlier Regular Tote Bag.

Regular Tote Bag

Not so regular as this tote bag is totally reversible!

When working halfway through this project I figured the bag is not going to form very well. You see the fabric used is again our batik Terengganu. I used it for both the inside as well as outside. So the fabric does not hold that well as a big formed bag. To improve it I added interfacing to bottom as well as used interfaced handle.

For the fact that both the inside and outside is from the same fabric, the look is different because I've made used of the different parts of our batik for each side. The side with the triangle motifs is from the "kepala kain". The side with floral motifs is from the "badan kain."

Nice for a regular bag.

P.S. You must be wondering by now why am I working a lot of bags in these batik fabric. Well, they are for Aishah who owns a batik shop and wants to take our batik to a different level. Good luck Aishah.

Sewing Bagsket

Ta da! Sewing Bagsket. Sounds funny eh? Well the original poster named it such, bagsket that is. Well I change it to Sewing Bagsket. Well I change more than just the name.

This bag original design is with a pull string cover. Imagine a container for baby's milk bottle. Well you're right, yuks, I didn't like. I did finish the bag up to that point. It looked pathetic. So I strip open the top part, redo the top edging and voila I got a Sewing Bagsket!

Why sewing basket? Well, the design allows for multiple slots for tools and notions. I used a beautiful ocean light blue satin trimming for the pocket top. So why hide it with the pull string top? And I figured the pockets fits well for scissors, rulers, pens and other sewing paraphernalia. Perfect.

Again, the fabric is our batik Terengganu. This time inside out! I made use of the different prints on the sarung fabric for special effects. It works eh!

This is one is Aishah's. I'd love to have one for myself to stash all my sewing tools and take it around when I'm working on a hand sewing project.

So, for my own sewing bagsket, come back it a short while okay!

Square Tote Bag

Another one for Aishah!

Again our beautiful batik Terengganu is used for this project.

This bag is a bit tricky than the others to do. Although it doesn't use any interfacing, sewing on the zipper, bottom tab and top handle requires a lot of patience! Phew! I was glad that I didn't have to undo anything ... except the zippers to open the bag!!

By the way, for the inside lining, I used my all time favourite plain cotton fabric in matching dark chocolate.

(Sorry no photo shot of the inside.)

For product sizing compare the bag to my laptop that it's sitting on.

Fabric Grocery Bag

Love this bag.

Pattern copied from the widely used supermarket plastic bag, this bag is made totally from 100% cotton fabric. The outside fabric is our lovely batik fabric from Terengganu.

I love this bag as it is very functional. Imagine if you were take a hot pot to a potluck party ... in goes the hot plastic container or our Pyrex casserole into the bag. No worries about handling the hot containers and you would look gorgeous carrying the hot pot in this bag.

Personally, I would like to make one for each of my Pyrex containers so when I go out for picnics or luncheon get together, I'd be happy and ready to transfer my favourite dishes in this lovely Fabric Grocery Bag!

Batik Clutch Purse With Gold Pin Closure

This batik clutch purse is ordered by Aishah. The idea is to promote batik fabric into the fashion industry. This batik is from a piece of our Terengganu Batik. The clutch purse is made from reference to Amy Butler's handheld purse.

The feminine shape of Amy Butler's handheld purse is accentuated by a sparkly, antique gold pin at the closure available at Sulam Sayang E-Store.

Cool Mangosteen Fun Mini Shoulder Bag

This is a mini version of my Cool Shoulder Bag. This one is in Cool Mangosteen Fun color! The first of this mini bags I did was with the orange cheetah print. It was given away to Edina! This rich purple color bag is electrifying. I have had it tested time after time during my, as I said earlier busy month of December, and it has provided superb service for holding all my toiletries together. Believe me, you gotta have one. Call, sms, chat, email, comment me now!!

My Tangering Cheetah Bag

Well I finally completed my tangerine cheetah print coool shoulder bag! This time I had to improvise a little bit to accentuate the look - I've added a large press button at the sides so the bags has more rounded edge and look to it. Of Course, with the button undo, the bag is flat and square as Sponge Bob Square Pants!! (and no I did not get inspired by him!!).

Did I mention that the bag is totally reversible?! Well yes, flip it inside out and you have a more rugged looking plain asparagus green (that's thinking of Zynga's FarmVille) bag with a pocket at the side. Now even Ikram (that's my nephew) would want to use this bag for his green shopping at Carrefour!




Still not enticed to own one? More coming and will make you drool like mad.

My Sewing Machine

This machine has given me some problems with it's performance but some of it is due to my ignorance. Some of the tension control problems I'm always saying to the technician at the repair shop is actually from my own wrong doing - I always had my top loading bobbin the wrong side in!! Ddaa.

My Mom's Sewing Machine

December had been a busy month. Well actually the roller coaster started with Raya Haji. Well prior to that we started the stretch of travellings and entertaining by having to pick up Kak Long in Segamat following her semester break. Perks of the trip .. durian Segamat!

Then balik kampung for the Raya Korban .. a week! The rituals of korban as usual was done by our traditional family gotong royong followed by an afternoon barbecue. Nice. On our return we had our nephew staying over. Did I mentioned it rained most of the time. Yep even my sis-in-law's house had a share of the flood in her area.

Na's visit was fun.. karaoke! Then another nephew came. Then we're off to KL. An agonising week, Kak Yah went thru a head operation. Alhamdullilliah she's recovering well. KL was fun to .. bowling, waiting in the hospital, biz meetings, family get together. Best of all I had the opportunity to bring my late mom's (Al-Fatihah) sewing machine to Kuantan. Thankyou to Abang Rashid and thank you to Jiha.

We had Nyah and Co and Hana and geng over. So we had another round of fun ... jamming, karaoke, BBQ, Yong Tau Fu buffet, durian.

Then we had to send Kak Long off again to school. She cried so it was quite a sad moment for all of us.

Now, again, it's just me and the boys.

Thankfully I have my sewing machine and I have my mom's sewing machine!!!