Pencil case / camera pouch

This is a joint effort between me and Sahar.  She started it as a pencil case.  When I saw the pieces in my fabric stash the other day, I figured it would be a good replacement for the camera bag I sadly lost a few weeks ago.  So now it's my new camera pouch.  :-)  (don't worry, Sahar doesn't mind)

Baby bag

I'm meeting my friend for lunch tomorrow.  She had a baby a few months ago and this will be the first time I meet him.  I didn't know what to make for a baby gift, so I reverted to my old stand-by: a bag.  It's one of the few things that I can make well enough to give as a gift.  And you can always use a bag, right?

It's a lined tote bag with pockets on the inside.  My sister-in-law has a bag about this size that she uses fairly often.  When she's taking my nephew out, she'll use it to carry his water bottle, a diaper, his hat, a sweater and a couple of snacks.

     

Putting more pockets in the shopping bag

It turns out that one little pocket just isn't enough for my keys, wallet and cell phone.  So today added a couple more.  I found another shirt pocket from the stash of scraps that Aysha gave me that was just perfect.

Putting a pocket in a shopping bag

The other day, I needed to run to the store to get something, and, as usual, I didn't have any pockets (why don't they put more pockets in women's clothes?). If it was winter, I would've put on my coat and used its pockets but now that it's nice and warm (finally :D), I wasn't going to do that. So, rather than bring my shoulder bag (along with all the random stuff that's always in there), just to hold my wallet and keys, I decided to throw them into the shopping bag.  It just made me think, this thing really needs a pocket.

Well, yesterday, I was going through the stash of scraps that Aysha gave me last year, and guess what I found? A pocket! She had unpicked it off a shirt. If I'm not mistaken, it was this shirt.

So, I turned my shopping bag inside out, pinned the pocket on, ...

...stitched it and I was good to go!