practice enough to gain mastery of these skills.





You may remember that to do this, I strayed from the book on my last assignment and chose a very challenging tutorial to follow, a card wallet . I made this about 3 times now, but still don't feel that I've mastered it, so I decided I'd make a stack just for practice.





However, since I'm always one for 2 (or 3) birds with one stone, I decided that I needed an actual purpose for all of these wallets that I was planning to create outside of simple sewing practice. Then I had a stroke of genius: my bachelorette weekend is coming up at the end of August (Yes, I know I'm already married! We're doing things a bit backwards in case you hadn't noticed). Anyway, I thought it might be nice to create a few things to make gift bags for the girls. Then, I could even try new items or practice others to put in there too!





The plan is to get good enough at them to figure out how to incorporate the concepts into my new line to come & current products. Or...perhaps I'll just enjoy making them for friends and then move on to something else (I'm thinking baby clothes!!).





But for now, the challenge stands: I will create 12 sets of these 4 items before the end of August. Meanwhile, I'll be charging on with the next chapter in my book: Purses!

Since I plan on creating a line of handbag/ purse related items eventually, I wanted to make sure that while I'm in the pouch & purse chapters of my book that ISo the bachelorette gift bag is born! It will contain a matching card wallet coin purse (which I still need practice with), tissue cover , and sunglasses case . Now, these are all from other people's tutorials, so I will not be selling these patterns obviously.