The final finish for the Make Nine 2024 Challenge is this group of triangle pouches. This new-to-me pattern was introduced to me and participants in a summer workshop with Arouna Khounnoraj. The triangle pouch is a perfect little project for featuring special fabrics, using up batting scraps, slow stitching with decorative threads, and it can be made exclusively by hand (if you choose).
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| Hand stitched triangle pouches. |
The first triangle pouch I made was in the workshop using fabrics that were dyed with natural dyes. I started a second one. This one incorporated a naturally-dyed fabric that was also hand stamped with a tjap design.
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| Triangle pouch using natural dyed fabric scraps and hand embroidery stitches. |
You can see the tjap I used to hand-stamp the design on the hand-dyed fabric.
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| Tjap and hand-stamped fabric for another triangle pouch. |
Last weekend, I started a batch of these pouches for a take-along handwork project prior to an overnight camper trip. This part of the pouch was sewn by machine (for expediency), but could also be done by hand. I’ve used a variety of commercial fabric prints in various colors.
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| Prepping the pouches for hand stitching. |
After the decorative hand stitching is used to “quilt” the pouch, it is assembled with a drawstring and a decorative bead, button, or charm. The pouch can be used to hold small notions, a spool of thread, candies, or other small treasures.
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| Opened pouch showing the drawstring and vintage button. |
One of the fun parts of making these pouches is searching the button stash to choose a complementary, decorative or vintage button to coordinate with the fabric.
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| Triangle pouches with vintage and decorative buttons. |
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| Hand stitched triangle pouches. |
Make Nine 2024 is complete!
These triangle pouches fulfill my “Learn more in ’24” prompt.
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| “Learn more in ’24” prompt on Make Nine 2024 tracker. |
And thus completes my Make Nine 2024 Challenge! It’s my 6th year participating and I’m feeling quite productive about this year’s projects.
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| Completed Make Nine 2024 Challenge tracker. |
