First, my workspace. My sewing table houses our 4" Charlie Brown Christmas tree, so this is our kitchen table. There is also wrapping paper and bits of cake on the table. Lovely.
I picked the Apples and Pears fabric. I used only scrap for this project.
I had some nice green upholstery fabric from Ikea. This would turn out to be a mistake. It unravels very easily and it just didn't work the way I hoped it would. I got all the way to sewing the two sides together when I realized the green had to go.
So...I picked a different green. This one was regular fabric-y fabric. It worked much better. See those scissors under the green? Those are my new love. These new scissors are AMAZING. They cut like they are going through melted butter.
The pieces ironed, folded, sandwiching interface, and ironed again.
As you can see, many mistakes were made. It needed a very narrow hem (is that the right word?) and in some places it didn't "catch" the back. That isn't so much a sewing mistake as a cutting/ironing mistake.
I didn't have the ribbon the pattern calls for, so I used some bias binding I had lying around. The brown actually matches the leaves on the fabric quite well. I was going to use dark thread to do this part, but I didn't have a "blank" bobbin to use so I just went with white.
As you can see, the white isn't terrible but nor is it anywhere near perfect.
I did do one thing definitely wrong. I wanted this to be long enough to go over my hand, but unfortunately I miscalculated how much to cut off after sewing them together. I will remember this for next time!
