Charlie bought me a sewing machine about a month ago! I've wanted one for quite a while - I just never thought I could actually sew enough to justify buying one. So when I found a couple of projects I wanted to try out, we took the plunge!
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| Isn't it cute! |
The night we got it, I was so anxious to start something that I rushed through it and did a terrible job! I have been wanting to make a camera strap cover that I have seen allllll over blogland lately. My mom, the Choctaw FFA, several FFA moms, everybody seems to have a Canon Rebel camera which is a little heavier than most cameras, so the strap is an extremely important piece. The strap that comes with the camera is kind of rigid plastic. If you are going to be taking a lot of pictures, a comfy strap would be wonderful.
It's only taken me a month to get going on a camera strap for a mom of one of my most favorite FFA officers, Annie Jo. Her step mom's favorite colors are red and black, so I picked out some cute fabric and got started.
First, I cut a piece of the decorative fabric and a piece of the inside fabric both 2.75" by 27".
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| Decorative fabric goes on the outside and black minky for the inside, nice and soft. |
I laid the minky and the red fabric on top of each other (both inside out) and sewed the edges together. The nice part is, you have to turn them inside out, so it doesn't really matter how great of a job you do at sewing straight or what color thread you use...
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| All sewed up |
I learned the first time around that the sewing machine won't go through two layers of the minky fabric very nicely, so I saved the raw edges for the end to sew by hand. Not preferable, but it will have to do! Once it was all sewed up, I turned the whole thing inside out (actually right side out).
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| Flowered side... |
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| Minky side... |
Here's what it looks like without the raw edges sewed up nicely.
So I folded the edges in and sewed them by hand. This was kind of nice because I could reinforce the corners where the two fabrics meet, the part where it's most likely to come apart with lots of use.
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| Drab and uncomfortable |
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| To FAB and super comfy! |
I hope she'll love it - it turned out cute!! All you have to do is slide it on the strap and go! It's long enough that it doesn't slide around, it stays where it needs to.
So my first go round with sewing turned out pretty good! (Probably because I got to turn it inside out to hide the stitching, haha)
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2 comments:
Okay I am soooo jealous! Your camera strap ROCKS!!!!! I will not even do close ups of mine b/c it is soooo bad HA! But hey I LOVE any seamstress! Hope you don't mind a new follower!!
-Ashley-
Not at all! Thanks for joining in! Thank you, thank you - notice that I didn't post pictures of the first one I made - it was TERRIBLE!!! haha.
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