Throw Pillow Cover

As for my next project (2nd) to test my sewing skill, my hubby suggested a simple throw pillow cover. I have bought already some half meters of fabric in Doha souq waqif (arabic term for market). It's in this place that I had found some very nice fabric stores where you can get a good haggling of the prices.

Heart Throw Pillow Cover

In making this throw pillow cover I just measured one of our sofa throw pillows. I also want to put a patch of any pattern at the front. I decided to put a heart patch using a colored floral fabric. I cut two squares of each fabric, the plain and the floral. I thought of making this into a zippered throw pillow cover. I got anxious thinking of putting a zipper though. It will be my first time to sew with a zipper.

I just use the top stitched on sewing all the sides. I used the floral fabric for the back side and the plain at the front. But first,  I cut a heart shaped on the floral fabric and stitched at the front of the plain fabric using the zigzag stitch. Then I sew the zipper on both of the fabric, before stitching all the sides together of both fabric.



Star Throw Pillow Cover

Using just the same method on the Heart Throw Pillow Cover, I made another one using a different pattern of fabric, and  a star patch sewn at the front. In making the star I cut five triangles of the printed fabric and sew each one using the zigzag stitch, then connecting the corners to form into a star.

Still, there are some imperfections on my sewing skills. The obvious one is the alignment of the zigzag stitch on the patches, especially on the heart patch where the curve sides are a challenge on the zigzag stitching. But overall, this is just an easy project, ideal for beginners like me. 

Joan Sews!

I had been thinking of making a blog of my creations ever since I had started crafting. But I still didn't have the bones to sit in front of my laptop and enter all what's happening in my creative life, until just today.

I think this is the right time for me to document everything that I make so that I have something to share to every crafters and creators out there. This may sound boring though,forgive me, but I need to start here, of course!

To be honest, I wasn't interested with sewing only after my hubby bought a sewing machine (Singer brand) for the purpose of using it for few fixing of worn-out clothes at home. Yes, he is the one who knows how to use a sewing machine! I didn't know how to use it, though we have an old vintage manual Singer at my grandma's house (God knows where it is now!), I wasn't allowed to touched it.

This is the sewing machine that he bought, with all the basic features, and it's so user-friendly I didn't have a hard time learning and using it. 

I just started using some scraps of fabrics, checking the alignment of the stitches, and learning to remove and replace the bobbins. I am a person who easily gets bored, so after doing a three or four practice stitchings I wanted test my sewing skill straight on a project. Yes, I want to do a project right away. That time I didn't have some fabrics at home, I only have a few pieces of felt cloth available.

1st Project

iPad Sleeve made of felt cloth.

I decided to make an iPad sleeve. I can call this as my 1st project though this is just a sort of a practice of my sewing skills. 

Well, the stitches were not perfect. At the back, the zigzag stich had misaligned. The black stretch cord that is going to be attached to the button as a closure is just my hair tie! I just hand-stitched it.   But overall, I was doing okay as a newbie, I believe. 

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