Sewing a Pretty Drawstring Bag to Hold My Stitchbook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I've been making a drawstring bag with hardy geraniums pounded onto the cotton fabric, creating a unique and beautiful design that showcases the natural beauty of the flowers. The bag is also embellished with simple yet elegant stitching, adding a personal touch to the overall look. In this video, you will also get to meet Boo the cat, who makes a delightful entrance that you won't want to miss!
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Brilliant, Marion!!! Just love your sunny “courtyard.” Your stitchbook deserves a special place to keep it!
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What a delightful project idea and I just love the technique you taught us to use the flowers and the foliage around us. It is a beautiful blue sky day with the birds and the flowers, and to see you really enjoying your day!!
It's hard to believe that was actually a year ago! It was a much better summer last year.
This beautiful bag tutorial did it again, memories of my gym drawstring bag as a little girl. My dear mum would have made it & how I wish I still had it (and my mum) in my life 😘
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What a lovely, useful little bag. The image of you bashing geraniums with a hammer blows my mind lol.
🤣 Just look up a method called Hapazone. There are some good tutorials out there already.
Thank you! So lovely! Great ideas. Slow stitching helps me keep my sanity. 😊
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I love to make buntings, and hang them on the walls under pictures of framed needle work that I have created and also to gift to family and friends, and just people I meet that provide a service in my small community, as a surprise cheering gift of kindness. I love to see your bunting and my first video of your site was the one you did that is hanging in your craft room. I am never disappointed with all your new ideas and chats with us. Please keep at it and take us along on your journeys!!!
There's no stopping me now.. there's more ideas than time to make them!
It's sounds lovely to be gifting handmade bunting to people. I imagine their surprise and pleasure. It's wonderful ☺️💐🧵🪡
What a wonderful few minutes of pure serenity!
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Thank you Marion!
You're such a lovely lady, I enjoy visiting with you on your channel. How sweet of you to decorate your courtyard for your teatime with your friend. I truly enjoy every video you put out. ❤
Your videos are always lovely. Xxx
When you closed your bag, “how satisfying is that” you made me smile. Your bag is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Thanks a lot. Sometimes it's these really little things that can make your day...
That flower printing is amazing - what a beautiful bag! Very fitting for your exquisite book💖
What a creative way to get flowers and leaves onto a fabric!
And what beautiful weather you’re enjoying in your yard.
I’ll try to pick flowers tomorrow morning and I’ll try your technique.
The stitching around the flowers made the flowers more sweet!
Thanks for showing us.
Yes, please, show us how you do the buntings next time.
Take care.
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Thank you Tess.
Yes, definitely give it a go! My sister used some red maple leaves the other day and they came out fantastic! The seed pods too 😊
Love the sound of that Bernina humming along. I'm a huge fan of vintage sewing machines. Thanks for sharing your creative projects. : )
Hello CraftyDad... It's a real good'un.... I was so lucky to be given it. Mind you I worked hard on restoring it the best I could. I don't think I've put it through all its paces yet either. I haven't used any of the feet that came with it. Maybe I'll have to have an experimental day.....
The flower prints are so beautiful! I love your soothing voice and environment. Thank you for sharing your world. 💗
Thank you for the compliment Michalia. I'm glad you're enjoying my videos! 💐
Lovely to see you enjoying the sun Marion ..
.so love your craft ideas , im not big on embroidery but love all of your other crafts you do , they inspire ne so much . Love and blessings from Ella in Sydney Australia❤🌹♥️🌹
Thanks Ella ☺️
Thank you Marion, love the simple but beautiful way you repurpose and embellish old things. Love this dress too. It looks like linen. Our summer is finally ending here in Perth. It started early and autumn winter will be so refreshing
It is linen. I made the Metamorphic dress by Sew Liberated. It's reversible and has blue linen on the other side...
I love spending time in your garden with you. Your bag is sweet. What a satisfying little project.
I'm so pleased Sue. Thank you 😊
Hello Marion, I’m so happy to have found you today! You are lovely, inspiring, and extremely talented. I’m on a marathon watching all your videos! Thank you for sharing your gift and love of the arts. Stay well and happy. Hugs to Boo!
Welcome to my channel Donna. I'm so happy you enjoyed watching...
Such a beautiful bag, just right for your stitch journal ❤
Very cute. I just was hammering flowers last week, my neighbors were probably wondering why I was hammering my potting bench for an hour. And I crocheted a bunting recently. I think we are kindred spirits across the pond.
Cool! I like the sound of that 😊 I did have one of my neighbours asking what I was doing when I was hammering 😅
That is so pretty. Love the flowers & your bag u made
Just beautiful!!
Hi Marion,
How beautiful! It looks beautiful out and the birds chirping is so nice to hear because here in South Dakota it is cold. 35 Fahrenheit i can't wait to sew outside in the beautiful outdoors. I love watching you and visiting with you. I have cats to they all have their own personalities and 1 golden Retriever who will be 4 this yr. I didn't sew last yr. And i can't wait to try your hammer method if you can i would love to see a tutorial on it. Thank you so much much for sharing your beautiful work. Your friend Becky 🧡
That's super cold! It's in the 40's here .
There's a bit of me doing the hammering on the midsummer video....👍😊
Hi Marion, I'm catching up on older videos that I haven't seen yet. This bag is SO pretty! I love the flower prints and two colours of ribbon. What a lovely gift bags these would make. I've been wanting to make some to "wrap" Christmas gifts, and it becomes part of the gift. Thank you for the tutorial. If this was only the second video you filmed, congratulations! It's brilliant!
Thanks Wendy. Not my second, but quite early on the TH-cam journey..😊🧵🪡
Thank you for a very original and pretty demonstration.
Perennial Geraniums are of my favourite flowers and so clever the way you got the image on the fabric.
If it is possible could you do a demonstration of this technique.
I'm South African living in the UK and we don't have these geraniums .
So I have many in my garden now.
Rozanne and Patricia are my favourites.
I think I recognise a super sewing machines.
I had to leave mine home and bought a modern Bernina and really am not enjoying it.
I look forward to your interesting videos .
Rozanne is such a beautiful flower. It would work very well indeed. It's nice to experiment with different leaves and flowers. I'll be filming a sewing room video soon and you'll find out about my machine too 😊
Thanks so much for this great idea Marion!😊
Glad you like it Debra 😊
You are a joy❤
Gorgeous. Waving from down under 🐨🇦🇺👍
👋 waving back from England 😊
It doesn't matter at all about a timescale as long as you are enjoying yourself. Making something you think is beautiful is worth whatever time you can give it.
Really lovely!
So very pretty!
Evening Marion, i gone back see your old utube because i simply love your soothing voice , and the flower prints are beautiful. Thank you for sharing kind regards Teresa xx
I have never heard of hammering flowers but off i go to give it a try! Thank you. Your work is lovely.
Hurrah! More creativity 😅 I hope you have some lovely plants to take prints from. Please let me know how you get on 😊
So pretty! 💜
You are the most delightful lady to watch and listen to. Your garden and stitching work and other artistic projects are a bonus.
I'm going to get my hammer and pick some flowers. 😀
I hope you do! Thank you for your kind words. I've been so surprised by all the comments everyone is making. It's rather wonderful....
Love the bag!
I just love the pattern you made with the flowers and leaves on your bag. I think that will be perfect covering for your stitching. wonderful work.
I think so too. Thanks Michelle.
What a wonderful idea ❤️❤️🦋
Pretty pretty case and banner💜🇺🇸been 6° at night but finally warming to 33° tonight 🎉
So pretty, I will have to try with my geraniums as well, unfortunately I don’t have sweet cicely, I can’t find it anywhere to buy and my attempt to grow from seed was hopeless.
You seem exactly like me, I love all crafts and gardening as well. Good luck with your TH-cam venture, look forward to your next video 😊
Thank you Moira. It's lovely to hear from someone who also enjoys lots of different crafts. They bring us great pleasure I'm sure😊
You are so creative. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
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Brilliant! :)
Such a pretty bag.
Oh how pretty. I'd like to see the process.
It's on the midsummer day video 😊
Another wonderful crafty item. Love it
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Lovely lovely lovely !
I wasn't sure about letting Boo have a starring role, but in the end I left her in....
Fun project.
Lovely to join you in your delightful garden.. ❤
It was a lovely thing to do... even though it was noisy!😅
@@marionsworld24 bird song is one form of nature’s music and I love it ❤️
That’s exactly how I was taught to make or repair cord and ropes when I grew up on boats and that’s how I’ve done it with threads and fabric since. So much more logical 😊
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Just discovered your work . Beautiful , gorgeous !!!!! Love your yard
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Thank you for another lovely video, Marion. I have never heard of hammering flowers before - doesn't it create a stunning imprint on the cloth! 😍 I wonder if pink camellias would work? I might try that tomorrow. How pretty your garden looks with the lovely bunting. Hello Boo! 👋You are a lovely fluffy girl. My old boy, Cheeky Puss is quite chatty in his old age too. 😊
Definitely have a go Leanne. Just experiment with different flowers and leaves. It's surprising sometimes which ones make good Imprints. If you want the cloth to be colour fast for washing you'd have to treat the fabric with alum or soy milk first. I'm not particularly bothered if the print fades over time and usually I just want to print something there and then! Maple leaves are particularly good....and peony petals too. Let me know about the camellias. I don't have any here but I'd be interested to know.😊
Lovely Boo. ☺ Thank you for sharing your bag creation. It's beautiful.
Thanks Su. Boo is 13, which, when you're a cat, is getting old😊
Your bag looks lovely xXxX You are so enjoyable to watch & listen to TFS
Thanks Pauline ❤
Pure magic! My baby is a black kitty named Merlin. He is a wizard! He is 17 years old and is going deaf, too. And, you are right, he has gotten so mouthy! He hollers all the time, it sounds like he is hollering.
Aw... Merlin is a great name for a cat! And 17 is a good great age too. My other cat is 23 and is starting to look a bit frail. But she still seems in good health otherwise 😺
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What a lovely bag - and garden! I love the festive bunting, too.
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lovely bag for a lovely journal! thanks for sharing the process.
You are so welcome😊🪡
Love your videos. Your stitching is lovely and your garden is great to see.
I'm so glad! Thank you
Beautiful. Not heard of hammering technique before 😊
I'll maybe be able to show you soon 😊
Adorable!!
I’d never have guessed the bunting was of paper napkins. What a simple but lovely idea.
Great seeing the sun as here at this moment it’s dark green skies and breezy to windy. It’s currently a free music event, The Godiva Festival on the memorial fields. It’s the other side the city to m, geographically, I’m your side.
Thank you for keeping me company. And when I’ve finally caught up I’ll go back and revisit so I can actually stitch similar to what you’ve shown us.
The hook with an eye, where did you get it? Very unusual and useful.
Best wishes and many thanks😀
It's a vintage find that I've had for years. I think it's actually a locker hook. Also for doing Afghan stitch. I use it mainly as sort of a bodkin when I'm threading things through a channel... It's very useful for those specific moments!
You make me smile ❤
:) Thanks...
I’ve never heard of the technique with the pressed flowers, I’d love to see a video about that. What a lovely bag.
I show how to do it on the Midsummer Day video. :)
@@marionsworld24 thanks Marion I have since found it.
The bag is so pretty, bright, & cheery. Love-love the draw strings. Great idea. Little Boo is just wanting some loving attention. Have a blessed day 🌈💛🙏💛🌈
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Fantabulous!
Yes I have a pile of thread like that and I find it really satisfying to find the colour I need and can use it up ? 😂
New subbie here, I'm intrigued with the bashing of geraniums 😀
You'll probably like the latest video... there's bashing going on!
Super cute bag! You should make and sell them…… I loved the eco print with the embroidery. The colors are just so vibrant!
Are you just watching all the videos again? :)
@@marionsworld24 Yeap :) I am…. 😇
It is lovely. You are so talented.
Thank you so much Glennis 💐
Just found you! Lovely project, thank you for sharing!🥰
You're welcome Elizabeth. Thank you for watching 😊
Your bag is lovely. 🙂
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I love it so much!
That's great... You'll have to give it a try too 😊
👏👏👏è molto carino !!!
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I want to know more about how to do that printing.
This could be great to put a print on the blank side of a flower book with the blooms from the individuals garden
If you look up Hapazome you'll find lots of information. It's become quite popular. :)
A bodkin looks so handy. I'd heard of them, but never seen one before. Lovely bag!
They're very useful for all sorts of things!
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I've just watched all your book pages and now this one. Your work is so beautiful. I have a good stash - more new bits added over the years - and long to use many of them but always struggle as I lack inspiration but always try to enjoy what I'm doing. I put old sample pieces of bobbin lace I made years ago onto a piece of crazy quilting as they took so long to make!😊 I look forward to future videos and have subscribed so thank you for sharing. Love your garden. Ours has no shady areas to sit in but at last we've got sunshine - but the garden needs the rain.
Putting your bobbin lace on crazy quilting sounds perfect! Thank you for subscribing... I'm supposed to mention it but I keep forgetting 😊 We haven't had rain for ages either, but as long as the tomatoes are watered the garden will manage hopefully 🤞
So many cool things! First the hammered flowers and a bodkin. I’ve never heard if it before and it would be so much easier to use than a safety pin.
The flower printing is called Hapazome. There are lots of tutorials on the internet. Just take a bit of spare cotton and experiment.... 😊 It's exciting to see the colour come through 💕
@@marionsworld24 I might have to try it with violas. There’s not much flowering here besides calendulas and the native wattle and gum trees here at the moment. I’ll check out some tutorials. Thank you ☺️
Violas will work beautifully. The calendulas too .you might need to take the petals off the flowers and arrange them separately to look like a flower. Sometimes there's too much 'juice' in the middle which can spoil your pattern. But it's all experimentation and even the bits you think are not so good will be pretty to use on something 😊
Enjoy it and let me know how you get on ☺️I'll be doing some pounding tomorrow if it's a sunny day.
Unless you’ve already done one (I’m coming in late) could you demonstrate whatever you did to ‘hammer’ in the geranium pattern? I’ve never heard of that technique and can’t imagine what you are talking about.
Incidentally, my Mum especially, but the rest of us caught her bag making bug, and make bags for everything. We called them ‘cosies’, like tea cosies. A lot them were fitted for things like street directories or camping chairs and often made of vinyl or other fabric dad brought home from work. In the old days, buttoned or flaps tucked into matching bands but the last few years with Velcro tabs.
And I was very pleased with myself last month when I reorganised my sewing room and made a little ironing station that fitted in a drawer - except for the iron. So I made a cosy out of left over dark green fabric that matched the newly painted thrifted bookcase, complete with a sewn in cork base in case the iron was hot. Now it sits camouflaged in the corner of the bookcase, almost out of sight. Took a while getting around the complicated shape, but I’m really pleased with the result. And now I’m typing in Your delightful accent 😂😂
It's called Hapazome and you can see me doing it on the Midsummer Day video... :) I love the idea of an iron cosie too!
@@marionsworld24 oh good, thank you. I’ve seen that one on the you tube feed so I’ll search it out and watch it. Thank you.
Absolutely love your drawstring bag and enjoyed this video so much.
Thanks a lot for your lovely comment. It's nice to know I'm on the right track 😊
Great way to keep your book safe 😊❤
Love your vids so much...i actually binge watch yours..no one else interests me
May i suggest you should sell your fabric work..like framed art and also have you considered a book on woodland ❤❤❤❤
I've been considering that actually. But I don't think I've got much time left in my week at moment. Definitely something I'll work towards doing though
Your comment about the ‘sand shoes’ in a drawstring bag, took me back and made me smile, my mum always called them sand shoes, nowadays I expect it would be trainers! Did you have to paint your sand shoes with whitener? It always took ages to dry and one week mum put them under the grill to dry out in time for school, but as I’m sure you guessed they got brown lines from being in the grill too long🤣lucky it wasn’t a gas grill ! Lovely watching you ❤
Yes! Whitener.... I think that's consigned to history now 😄 I remember being sent home because of unwhitened shoes.... It wouldn't happen now I think, but back then there was usually someone at home.
Haven't done the flower hammering for years! I did some solar dyeing in a jam jar with dandelions last month and got some good results. Thanks for sharing x
Ooh Lorna.... I've just started a solar dye jar. I've used black elder, red onion skins, dandelion leaves and geranium flowers, topped off with a bit of turmeric. I'm hoping for some good gradation of colours 🤞😊
Dye ingredients sound good. I had good results from red onion, tried nettles, colour good, but disaster as the smell was horrendous !!!
I've already discovered that! I keep having to release the gases... It's the first time I've done it so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed 🤞💕
can you tell us again the name of that lovely blue flower; some kind of geranium I think. Also, where can we buy the Inktense paint sets ? My buntings by the way are made of beaded felt hearts that I put a yo-yo, or Suffolk puff in the center and also bead, and hang on ribbons with tiny bow strings. Maybe one day I will joint pintrest to show others.
It's a hardy geranium called Gravetye. Lots of lovely blue flowers over the summer. Inktense blocks should be easily found online. They're made by a company called Derwent. They do Inktense pencils, blocks or paint pans.
Can you show us the finished Phrenology chart that you were working on, it was so beautiful, what will you do with it? It would make a lovely wall hanging.
I'll definitely do a video about making one.. I'll try and remember to show the latest one I've completed 👍
You are simply to adorable for words ...I would have tea with you anytime of the day. Peace and Blessings to you...
Crikey... You tell me when and I'll put the kettle on!😂
Beautiful work ❤
Thanks a lot 😊
Can you create a beautiful Rabbit in a garden setting that we could stitch up, by following up what you teach us?
🤔 I'll have a think....
Such a beautiful bag. Thank you for showing us how to make it 🌷
That’s awesome how you put the color on. How do you set the color on the cloth?
You need to treat the cotton with alum first so that the colours will set. I will be filming some of the actual pounding tomorrow maybe.
What a beautiful little bag! I really like your dress as well, did you make it?
Yes I did Melissa 😊 I make almost all my clothes and the rest come from thrift shops 😊
In fact I've got at least 3 clothing projects to start at the moment...
Those are geraniums?? They’re beautiful. Would you know what they’re called? I have geraniums in my garden and I’d love those. I live in Australia by the sea I’m sure they’d grow.
Boo is soooo very precious. What a sweet girl.
I love the idea of of the dye from the flowers and leaves! Fantastic.
I do enjoy your videos and was having a cup of tea the same time as you.
Love idea to keep a stitch book.
They're also known as cranesbills. You definitely should be able to grow them there too. That one particularly is called Gravetye, but you might be able to grow the more tender ones that we're too cold for here 😊
@@marionsworld24 oh Thankyou so much for that. Looks like I have an excuse to go to the plant nursery haha. Do we ever really need an excuse. 😂😂
I never knew you could hammer flowers onto fabric and they would leave prints. Do you have to soak in vinegar to set? Very cleaver, love the tote bag. Can be used for several occasions and what a conversation piece!
I soaked the cotton in aluminium acetate first. It helps the colour.
@@marionsworld24 just in a bowl? 30 minutes long enough? Any formula - water to aluminum acetate. Sorry for all the questions. I have never done or heard of. I looked it up and can get from pharmacy here in powder form.
Yes. Just in a bowl of warm water. I make sure the cotton is wet first, put a teaspoon of alum in the bowl and mix it round, then add the cloth. Soak for an hour or so before drying. The colours are slightly different. It's worth just experimenting to see what effects you can get.
@@marionsworld24 thank you. I really want to make them this summer. Then make into tote bags. You are very talented and creative!
So pretty ! Don’t suppose it will be washable ? x
Mine isn't because I just did it on the spot. But if you treat the fabric first with an alum mordant then it will be colour fast. I don't mind if mine fades a bit. And it will probably never need washing anyway!
I have questions. I’m just now learning embroidery, slow stitching etc…what is your advice for me. Also you made a statement in one of your videos about getting started or you will never have a finished piece, how was that said? Also how did you do the process of the flowers in your fabric? Will it wash out or come off?
Hello Vicki. Welcome to my channel. I think the best advice I have is just to dive right in and just enjoy whatever you do. It really is as simple as that. I think what you referred to is that sometimes people are so worried about doing something wrong or making a mistake that it stops them even starting. That can be in anything... I just expect to make mistakes sometimes, that's part of learning, so you just pick up your needle and thread and try something. See what happens. And try not to compare yourself with others. You don't know how long they've been practicing so they're at a different stage. As soon as you do your first piece of anything you have more experience than the ones who are put off.
The hammered flowers do fade a bit, but using treated fabric helps with that. I haven't washed it though so I can't say about that ☺️
@@marionsworld24 thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. You are correct about being afraid to start. Love your enthusiasm and your relaxed way of doing things. Love your channel.