Saturday 15 March 2014

My First Custom Order




Yipeeeeee...I've finally made some money from sewing. My friend ordered one of these to give to her friend as a birthday present. It's a drawstring bag for putting campervan thermal window mats in.... And I received real money for making it!!!
Though the fabric is a lovely design, it wasn't cotton and frayed like mad and so I did a French seam to make it last a bit longer. It was also quite difficult to photograph, so I strung it from the washing line!
Please ignore the ladder and the Canadian canoe and look at the pretty pink Camellia instead!



Linking up with Le Challenge....who's theme this month was order. I had several ideas as the theme left it open wide, but this one fitted the best. Amazingly the word order came up in two blog titles next to each other in Bloglovin! Nicole from Follow the White Bunny was blogging about the Order to stitch things in an embroidery, she has lots of interesting stuff, so pop over and take a look.



12 comments:

  1. Whohoo to your first order! Great fabric! Thanks for sharing le challenge!

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  2. well done xx have fun spending your earnings x

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  3. I had to go away and look up those mats... there is more to camper-van-itis than meets the eye! Good make and well done for earning some pennies at it!

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  4. Congratulations on your order!! That's a cute van print. Pretty Camellia too ;) Thanks for linking up to le challenge!

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  5. Yay on the finish and on the making money part!

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  6. congratulations on your order :) I love the fabric (and the canadian canoe)
    x

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  7. Well done with the order! The camellia is lovely We don't have any blooms yet on ours. , still at the crocus stage here

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  8. This is a much better version of the word order I think (BTW I'd have never spotted that canoe)

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  9. yay for your first order, may it be the first of many!

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  10. yay for your first order :-) Love the fabric!

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  11. I'm way behind but Congrats!

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