Made by a Fabricista: Simple Christmas gifts

For this month's FM post, I decided it was only appropriate to show some simple gifts. I love making gifts for family and friends and this year, is no exception.

I needed some quick, cute, and useful projects. Along came the idea of cute little cosmetic/travel bags.

I love bright and cheery fabrics and since I knew these would be gifts, I wanted some variety of prints.

Both prints are fun and cheerful, but also perfect for the recipients I have in mind for these sets.

I really love sewing 100% cotton and these bags came together easily and quickly, yet still look great. I had some fun putting together a contrasting fabric for the lining for each of these.

How cute is this blue dainty floral print with this colorful border print? I cut the border print on the cross grain to take full advantage of the fun print on this fabric.

With simple projects like these, really the sky is the limit for what you want to create and what fabric combinations you decide to go with.

All four fabrics are still in stock!

See the links below:

Fabrics:

white lining fabric

Crimson Red/White/Black fabric

Red floral border print

Cornflower/White/Red ditsy print

Pattern:

petal pouch pattern

One really great thing about FM, is that if you wait for a sale, you can grab up cute fabrics like these at a bargain and shipping up these little bags takes an afternoon, or less, if you aren't watching your two year old grandson. ;)

I hope you'll shop some of the beautiful cotton prints FM has in stock.

Happy sewing!

Sue from Ilove2sew!

Made a Fabricista: Classic Holiday Pieces

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Made by a Fabricista: Velvet Holiday Jumpsuit

Hey friends! So glad to share one last make with you. Hope you've enjoyed wonderful holidays, even if they have been a bit different than normal. I'd been wanting to try making Deer & Doe's Sirocco Jumpsuit for a while, but was afraid it wouldn't be flattering on my mom-tum. I finally got over that with a romper this Summer (oops, never got around to blogging that!) and decided to follow up with a velvet jumpsuit for Christmas! When my hubby saw it he called me an elf. Bahaha. But I love it; I even wore it for our Christmas card photos. I used a green stretch velvet I picked up at Fabric Mart a couple of months ago. The particular deep green velvet I used is sold out now, but I just love these alternatives: Rosewood , Ocean or Obsidian (or you can find even more options here! ) I think the marriage of stretch velvet and this pattern is really excellent! I didn't have to make many pattern alterations: I often need a full bust adjustment (FBA), but di

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