This week I made a pair of pants from some water resistant fabric. I'm not sure how useful they will be, but I thought they might be nice when my nephew plays at the water table or is out and about in rainy weather.
Ages ago I saw a cool fabric mailbox tutorial on Givers Log. Thinking about what red things I could make got me thinking about Valentine's Day. I've seen lots of fun Valentine's Day mail pouches in blog posts lately. I thought about making one of them and then remembered the mailbox tutorial and decided to give it ago.
I made some modifications to allow me to complete the project without buying anything new.
I sewed the flag to the mailbox.
I used Velcro as closure for the mailbox.
I used a place-mat that I had on hand rather than use plastic canvas.
I really enjoyed the tutorial. I found that the template didn't want to print at the correct size for me. That was easily remedied by copying and pasting the template into word so that I could enlarge it. I needed a bit more fabric than the tutorial called for. If you follow the tutorial, and I recommend that you do, I suggest that you place your plastic canvas pieces before cutting your fabric.
I don't have much red fabric in my stash so I started a project with some red paper. I didn't finish this week and likely won't for quite a while. Can you guess what it will be when it is done?



The Valentine's box is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThose pants and mailbox look great!
ReplyDeleteI love love love that mailbox! It is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteYou are doing such a great job with this challenge! Everything you make is great!!
ReplyDeleteVery cool ideas. I especially love your mailbox! Another thing for my to-do list. Thanks for the link.
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