I have had the pattern for The Booklet Pouch by Aneela Hoey for some time and I kit it up for the November Modern Quit Club Retreat, however I needed the correct zippers including a separating zipper. I ordered some from Sew Hot but the colour choice was very limited. When I was in London in January, I bought matching 10" red zips from MacCulloch and Wallis. I was ready to make my case or so I thought.
I used Tula Pink's Tabby Road collection together with a more recent rainbow houndstooth. I think I need to buy more of that fabric. I also needed double sided heavyweight interfacing which wasn't available in Jersey, so I improvised with Steam a Seam light ironed onto some Decovil light. I will try the recommended interfacing next time but my solution did work satisfactorily.
On the outside of the case, I fussy cut two cats for the front and back of the pouch and then pieced them together. Although I am not a rodent lover, I do love the selvedge that I added to the pouch, and I even remembered to add a label to the outside.
I now need to focus on two cross stitch pieces that I wanted to work on this month. I also hope that my Janome Atelier 7 arrives back from being fixed today so that I can piece together some machine embroidered blocks from Jingle all the way.
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