Happy Birthday Sewing

This week was all about birthday gifts. Today is my niece's 2nd birthday and my brother's girlfriend's birthday. Happy Birthday Callie & Whitney!!!!

Harper also had a birthday party on Saturday she attended for a classmate. I decided to make a combination of my zippy art purse and composition notebook cover.

Next time I think I will add the handles. It really does make it eaasy to carry around.

It's basically a larger version of the zippy art purse with no handles. Here are the measurements in case anyone is interested.

11.5" x 17"- 1 exterior piece, 1 interior piece, 1 piece of flannel

11.5" x 14"- inside pocket (the one above was a little too small so this measurement makes the pocket larger)

11.5" x 4"- top of zipper

11.5" x 12- bottom of zipper

If you want to make the compostion cover like this one, just make two inside pockets and disregard the zipper pocket measurements.

This is what I made for my sweet little niece. It is a bear backpack.

Buddy Backpack by Winterpeach

Inside view.

I made this little pouch to match the purse I made for Whitney for graduation. Instead of interfacing, I attached the flannel piece to the exterior piece with lines of sewing to make a quilted look. It added just enough body so that it is not too flinsy or too stiff.

I used the tutorial by Noodlehead for the pouch.

Happy Crafty Tuesday everyone.

I am linking up to this post for the Tea Rose Home Link Party.