Vintage napkin Turned Clutch [Tutorial]

First tutorial. Second blog post. Shall we proceed?
I'm a huge fan of finding things for cheap inexpensive prices and I love vintage. The name kind of makes happy inside and I found myself recently saying it a lot lately. Sorry fam! Well, last weekend I went to an estate sale and was it ever a hit! I could do a post on those finds later. (not to mention I got a sweet OWL tote. for ten cents. yep 10 cents!) Okay anyhow I found a stack of mis-matched napkins.. and who uses fabric napkins anymore?--- the dude sold me the lot for a dollar. So lets say each cost about 20 cents.
Anyhow this could be done with any piece of fabric but I especially liked this because the edges were already taken care (serged).

So I ironed out the beast to get the creases out...

 

Then i folded each side in 4 inches and ironed it

-- then onto the sewing machine!

Then I sewed down the center seams that will eventually be pockets I started about 5 or so inches from the top and sewed both sides down

Okay so this was BEFORE I had messed up and had to take out the stitches out.. so imagine that there are two seams down the middle. K?

Then sew the sides up, I sewed them all the -- up to the cover.

 

My machine (er my mom's twin machine..) has marks 3-4-5-6 -- I used the 3 as my guideline

And ta-da! with a few stiches you've got a clutch. But now for embelishments...

 

I picked out a white, pearly button and the white eyelet fringe :)

 

I also took yellow chord to make the connection.. -- sort of like the office envelopes with two circles and the string that is looped around the two things to act as a seal for the envelope. Vague description, sorry!

Anyhow, tie it in a knot and sew it down with a number of stitches. The fabric here was not tightly woven so I had to be extra careful!

Then I attached the button. Sorry no pics.

And finally, I sewed 2 layers of eyelet fringe along the bottom. You could do any thing really!  its a great way to use scraps! 

This is the finished clutch. see the string, it gets wound around the button :)

On the inside you've got a nice large space for what ever and then two smaller "pockets".

I think one of my sisters will start using it soon! Yay.

So go sew, sew, sew!

-Joji

Okay okay

So I know that I won't be able to blog for long for well, undiscolosed purposes but! I decided that I might as well get one going while I can. Its my final semester of school and that means I'm not sure how much time I'll have to devote to this but! I'll make an effort.

I've decided that in this final semester of school I'm going to make an extra huge effort to not live in a way where I think I can do it on my own. Because frankly, I can't. And when I think I can, I fail miserably!
Day by day I'm learning what relying on the Lord to keep me going and to work in and through me. He does and I know He will.

So, I'm going to choose joy. Til the stars fall, is not just a fun phrase. I mean, I've never heard it said as a chitty chat phrase anyhow! But it means that til life is over I want to live for my King! Not just when times are good and feeling great. No. Always and ... til the stars fall!

But, for now -- peace out.

Tomorrow will be here WAY too soon! (and school starts at 7:35).

j.