Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts

Monday, July 26, 2010

Cutting and Sewing and Painting, Oh My!

There are times when my fingers need more to do than work a paint brush. In times like those I pull out my trusty sewing machine!
Needing a protective pouch for my iPod, that's what I turned my attentions and energy to. So after some trial and error (and a few uselessly small pouches), I finally came up with these. And in typical Christina Fashion I had to put a bit of hand-painting on each to give them my own spin. Each also sports vintage buttons as a final touch.
The first is my little Alice, once again making an appearance on my own pouch:

The second I created for my husband, with a hand-painted dragon, and very long necklace cord added so he can hang it around his neck: