Aug Friday Night w/Friends

Since COVID has reemerged with the Delta variant we've decided to mostly stop square dancing for a while longer. That gave me back my Friday night to join Cheryll and everyone for this month's Friday Night With Friends.

I headed up to my sewing room after lunch and spent the rest of the day working on my new craft tote.  I spent most of the time sewing zippers and fold-over elastic onto the mesh and vinyl pouch pieces. I've never sewn vinyl before; it was a new challenge. I'm glad I bought new vinyl that had a tissue paper backing or it would have been nearly impossible.

Then I started sewing one of the two "pages" (the inserts that hold the tools and supplies). I managed to sew down the pouches on the front and back, but I still need to add the facings and bias tape, to cover the raw edges.

The project is going pretty slowly, partly because I have to spend so much time reading the directions and making sure I understand them. It seems like once I've finished this tote, I'll immediately need to make another, while the process is still fresh in my brain.