Reversible and Foldable Fabric Storage Bin

Hello,

Fabric storage bin is a great way to get your home organized. There are plenty tutorials you can find in Pinterest. This week, in between finishing my wallet orders, I made these fabric bins based on Japanese book I bought last year. 

 I always love browsing (and buying) Japanese books and magazines. They make simple things look so pretty! Nowadays, everything you can find online. And with pinterest, you can just pin stuff you love for ideas. But I find, books and magazines are still the best! In the sense, that we can easily go back to it, and read every details. Mark which project you'd love to do in the future.

reversible and foldable fabric box

We can slowly enjoy the book, while sipping our mid morning tea, without being distracted by "More like this" pictures ^_^.

Just like these storage bins, I was having my mid morning tea and picked up a couple of Japanese books. I needed storage boxes but the idea of buying plastic storage bins is out of the question. Because in the future when I don't need it anymore, it will be difficult to store them, right? 

Book Storage Organizer

I've been looking and watching lots of tutorials on fabric bins on the net, but when I see this particular one in the book, I felt so inspired that I got down to work immediately. 

Crochet Wool Storage

I decided to use denim, black and blue denim, which I had in my stash. Since denim is already thick, I put the interfacing only on the contrast fabrics. These storage bins are meant to be reversible so I chose some fun fabrics.

DVD Storage

The size is perfect to hold books, DVDs, or even craft supplies. I want to make more of these, maybe will try out a different sizes depends on my needs. I also added these storage bins for custom orders in my webshop .

So, what inspired you this week? 

Thank you for stopping by,

Until then,

Happy Sewing

~ Elvira ~

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Foxy Passport Wallet with curvy edges and Konmari Updates

Hello,

How's your week going on? My week's been pretty busy but in between I went to spa and pamper myself. The Marie Kondo book "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up"  has arrived and I'm currently reading it. I will finish the book and will plan my "konmari" move ^_^.  So far in my sewing room, I already put all my tools and hardwares in one corner. Arranging the fabric stash would be the tough part. I am thinking of destashing fabrics which does not spark joy anymore. So if you're in India and would love to get the first news of my fabric destash, make sure to join the group on Facebook or follow me in Instagram @chezvies_shop.

In the meantime, I finished this wallet yesterday. This is another take on my Passport Wallet pattern. I had this fox fabric for a while and I thought it will be a fun travel wallet.

New style Passport Holder

I combined it with  brown polka dots fabric. I always come up with one idea and I usually improvise as I go along. As I was cutting interfacing for the flap, I decided to make a curvy flap. It looked really good and I loved it.

Passport Card Holder

As for the card slot, I wrote a tutorial in this POST to get a patchwork style card slot.

Foxy Wallet

And then as I was going to the binding part, I was in two minds- curvy edges or straight edges. I thought making bias binding was too much of work. But I wanted curvy edges, so I stopped working and went about doing other chores. 

In the evening I went back to my sewing table and decided let's make the bias! And it's so worth it!!

Travel Wallet

Upon reading Marie Kondo Books, I realized that, doing or keeping something that truly "spark joy" give us an immense happiness and satisfaction. With all the  instant updates we always see in social media, sometimes as a handmade maker, we feel rushed. We jumped to the rat race and forget to enjoy the process. If you've been thinking for decluttering your space (and life), you might love to read the book.. Yes I know, I've been thinking along the same line too "why do I need to learn to tidy up?" but after reading the book, there are a few things I learn, like "putting things away created the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved".  That definetely sound like me LOL. 

That's all for today. Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoy reading my post. Leave a comment if you'd like me to make video on bias binding. 

Until then,

Have a nice weekends,

~Elvira~

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