Adjusting a shirt collar

I found this great tutorial on how to adjust a shirt collar through We Did it Wednesday last week.  At first, I just thought, that's cool.  Then, as I pulled my shirt collar away from my throat for the umpteenth time that day, I realized, wait a minute...

Here are some pics of what I did.  You can get the original instructions here.

Thanks Elise!

Adding snaps to a tote bag - so it stays folded

We can also use snaps to keep a bag neatly folded while it's not in use.

The first thing to do is fold the bag so we can figure out where to put the snaps.  I'm sure there's more than one way to do this but for this particular bag, I folded the straps on one side of the bag, folded the bag into thirds, folded the top and bottom so they meet in the centre and then folded the whole thing in half.

Adding snaps to a tote bag - so it closes

I like to keep my card making supplies in this tote bag.  This way, I have everything together and ready to go when I need a quick and easy activity for Girl Guides or day camp.  As a storage solution, though, it's not ideal.  Sometimes the bag will fall over in my closet and the contents will spill out and, overall, it just looks a little untidy, especially with the straps hanging out.

Adding belt loops to pants

I really like these pants (thanks Aysha!). Having just recently bought the belt I need to keep them up, I noticed that these pants are sorely lacking in belt loops (aside from that one in the centre back, there are only two more in the front). So, I decided to do a little transplant...

Adding elastic to socks

I love these socks...

Table socks

Yes, table socks.

That's what I made this morning.

The sticky felt things under the kitchen table have been sliding around and coming off.  We were getting tired of replacing them every couple of days.

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!