This seems to be my week of working with little things. I tried another one of the Kumiko Sudo fabric origami designs last night and, while the fabric I chose wasn’t quite right, I was really impressed with the result! No pics of that, though!

I took Annemiek‘s advice and gave up on the scallops on these little needle cases and made another with this fun kitty fabric, this time made totally by hand. And Annemiek is right — it is much much easier without the scallops! Although I’m still tempted to try sewing one with the scallops by hand.

And, of course, I had to find a fun button for it.

The inside will definitely wake someone up!

Although the flash sort of caught his eyes, I couldn’t resist this picture of Lester with the lamb.

On the weekend, I wandered over to Fabricland and was happily surprised by the items they seem to be carrying now! Beads. Lots and lots of glorious wonderful beads. Embroidery floss. Fons and Porter notions! Normally I never find much of anything to spend money on at Fabricland but this weekend? Oh, my — it was amazing!

The best part was that it was a sale day — 50 per cent off everything. I was thrilled. Picked up lots of beads and some embroidery floss.

I made another one of these needle cases from Kokoro no Te by Kumiko Sudo. This time all in blues. I decided the little blueberries, or whatever one wants to call them, needed some glitter. This is the front with all the glittery blueberries.

The back.

The inside. There are 3 pages for needles and pins as well as the inside of the covers.

I never really thought of myself as attracted to glittery things but I’m having so much fun with these beads!! Now I’m looking for things that might just need a bead or three to give them some sparkle.

Lester, it seems, is not as captivated by beads. Good thing — can you imagine what a great big kitty paw like that could do with little loose beads?? And before anyone asks — I have the beads in a small bowl while I’m working with them, which bowl is out of kitty reach!

After finishing the blue and white stars top, I decided I could have a little play time before working on the next on the UFO list. I’ve been dying to make one of the needle cases from Kumiko Sudo’s book, Kokoro no Te, so that was my dessert.

This is my first one finished. I’m not thrilled with the felt I bought as it’s synthetic stuff and wasn’t all that pleasant to work with, but as I had never worked with any felt before it was good enough for practicing.

This is the inside of the front “cover”. A piece of felt is cut slightly smaller than the fabric and stitched down inside the front and back pieces of fabric.

There are 3 pieces of felt for needles in the middle.

And this is the back.
All in all, I’m pleased with how it turned out and am really looking forward to making a few of these with better fabric and nicer felt. I think they’ll make great gifts!

Lester always strikes me as a very smart, wise kitty. This picture sort of shows his wise side.