Purse Palooza – Pattern Review – Creative Maker Supply Case

This post is part of Purse Palooza 2015. For full details and contest rules, check here.
Today’s post is from Samantha of Sewing Patterns by Mrs. H.

I have a very good friend who’s recently taken up the hobby of lock picking. He asked me if I could make him a case for his picks and sent me some pictures of what he was currently using.

Aye Carumba, we can do better than that!

Thank goodness for Sara’s Creative Maker case, it’s perfect to adjust for what my friend needs.

I chose to make the Small size and I used spacer fabric. It’s similar to what they use for running shoes. It’s a grey mesh on one side and then black foam underneath, bonded together to make one fabric. I paired it with black mesh and black cotton and added a black twin slider zip. My friend was very specific in that I wasn’t to use anything bright or girly!

Because the outer fabric has foam as part of it’s structure I omitted the outer stabiliser, but still used medium weight interfacing for the lining pieces.

During construction I used tailors tacks in a contrasting thread to mark the centre of each panel as it was the only thing I could see on the fabric. Sometimes we get so caught up in our modern inventions (Chaco liner!) that we forget the traditional methods are sometimes best!

Here’s the finished case with my friends picks installed. Apparently his collection tripled in the time it took me to get around to making his new case, oops, maybe I should have made the large!

The outer fabric makes it look really slick, my friend was chuffed with his new pick case. He assures me he will only use his skills for good!

The pattern comes with 11 pages of detailed instructions and colour photos, and a further 3 pages of full size pattern pieces which you can use to cut on the fold.

If my friend reads this it’s helpful to note that it took me weeks and weeks to make it, if you’re not the friend in question then you should know that it actually only took me one afternoon of sewing….and a fortnight of getting around to sewing it!

The potential for these little cases is endless, I’ve seen some really fun ones around, but I’m pleased I had a very simple brief, I think it looks very professional!

How will you use yours?

Samantha from Sewing Patterns by Mrs. H is an independent pattern designer, living in Wales, UK. Samantha specializes in bag sewing patterns and also runs the Sewing Patterns by Mrs. H Etsy shop where you can get a whopping 25% discount on her Great Value bundles using the code BUNDLEBONANZA.