Wednesdays are UFO Days, and Sometimes Wednesday Happens on Friday
I have to go back, back in time because this was done almost two weeks ago, before I went into the four-day Frolic quiltmaking frenzy. I meant to post it last Wednesday, but…well, best laid plans, etc.
Here’s the finished purse which, in this view, doesn’t look any different than it did back here. Back then, I was worrying about the slippery lining fabric. My fears about its slinkiness were justified. It’s like it had an aversion to itself…I’d match two edges of fabric and before I could pin it together, one edge, then the other, would shimmy around like it would really rather not be touching that other edge, and it definitely did not want to be precisely matched. The whole time I was dealing with the slipperiness, I was thinking wistfully about all of my excellently behaved quilting fabric. Also, less is more — in terms of caffeine — when working with shiny, slippery fabric.
Not to go on and on about the unruliness of this fabric. A professional would say: I pinned the fabric, sewed the seam, and proceeded to the next step.
So! That’s what I did.
Oh, but the next step was adding the magnetic clasp. That was not without its issues…but let’s just skip over the details and say: I installed the magnetic clasp.
The last step was hand-sewing the (extremely slippery) lining into the purse. Easy, really.
When things go this smoothly in fact, it seems like there’s no excuse for a project to spend months in the land of UFOs. I’m sure it will never happen again.