Finished Object
Written by Pamela on March 29, 2008 – 12:12 pm -I’ve taken an enforced break from knitting, as my RSI has flared up. Still, any excuse to do a bit of hand sewing eh?
I started this Cicada pouch at our meeting last Wednesday and finished it on Friday evening.
The pattern is from Kumiko Sudo’s book Kokoro No Te, although I printed it out at a smaller scale, so that I could fit all the pieces onto one 9 inch square of patterned fabric, plus a bit of plain fabric for the underwings. The fabrics are polyester and rayon chirimen crepes which I get from Fabric Tales in Japan. I love Fabric Tales because most of their fabrics are available in 9 inch sample squares, which are perfect for little projects like this, plus I can get lots of different patterns for the same money as I’d pay for a metre of just one fabric.
As chirimen is quite a brittle fabric, the pieces are reinforced by lining them with felt.
Posted in Sewing | 3 Comments »
By Vicky on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply
Cicadas are usually ugly little creatures but this one is beautiful!
By guzzisue on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply
please bring it in on Wednesday so I can see it..
By Claire on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply
That is so cute! It’s great to see it finished.