 Hello, everybody. Two viewers. Yay. One is me, so I don't know. Oh, three of you. Yay. Including me. All right, cool. Let's get started, shall we? Hey, Gail. Clive and Don, question mark? Are you in the right broadcast? Hey, how we would do Sewing 101 live today because I've got a number of sewing projects to do. No worries. If you're not in the right broadcast, it's okay to leave, really. I won't, no hard feelings. Hey, Lisa. So, I thought that we would do a live, my mind was not to run. Gail, that's me every day. Like, really? Especially when even minor things go wrong like yesterday when my washing machine blew up. Like, seriously? My mind is frequently not turned on or in the right place. TommyGirls75. Hey. All right. So, I have a number of sewing videos. I was actually going to try to film yesterday, and if you don't follow me on social media, you don't know. There was an appliance issue here yesterday, and I had a half finished large load of laundry. The washing machine had issues. I had to go run to the laundromat, which I haven't done in like 20 years, so I didn't even know where one was. It was a whole big process. Anyway, we got it fixed last night, yay. But little things like that just throw my whole day off. And I have anxiety disorder, so anyway, so it doesn't take much to be honest. So, I didn't get any of the sewing done yesterday I was going to or bookkeeping. Not that I'm excited to do the bookkeeping, but anyway, I thought since I still have to do it today, maybe I would just, you know, like do some of it on camera live because why not? That I don't have to edit videos, so win-win for me. So, we're going to do that. And yeah, it was, you know, it was just my husband came home. He's a genius with mechanical things and computers. I like, yeah, am not. And that's just being very kind to myself. I'm just not. So, he came home and he works long hours, but he came home anyway last night before he had dinner. He fixed it, yay. I did. It was a really pretty turquoisey color, and the Indian man was very nice to me who was running it, and yeah, he was very sweet. So, yeah, it was very nice. Okay, so the first thing we're going to talk about today, we're here with Sewing 101 Live, by the way, no painting involved today. So, if you're here to see a painting broadcast, you're in the wrong broadcast. I was going to do something else this morning on Sewing 101 Live, and I had a few questions about this particular subject and a request from a friend that were all related. So, I thought we would do them live. Yeah. So, and the live thing that we're going to do is we're going to take my traveler's notebook cover that I've already done a couple of tutorials on, and there's one more coming, where I make basically the same-sized cover, but in a hand-painted fabric. Both of those tutorials are coming. You haven't seen them yet. But take that basic design and make it for a larger notebook, like a composition book. I've had a number of questions about that, including a comment thread with someone, a message thread with somebody over Facebook this morning, and so we're going to work on that today. The first thing I want to tell you, thanks, the first thing I want to tell you is, I want to talk about sewing machine maintenance. So, like any other piece of equipment in your art room, it should get maintenance and cleaning on a regular basis. The more you sew with it, and the more mixed media things you sew with it, the more often you should do said maintenance. Gail, there is a denim traveler's notebook cover sewing 101, and there is a canvas one already on my channel. So, you can look at both of those. The basic pattern is the same, and the painted fabric one is coming, and I'll give you guys a sneak peek in a minute of the composition book size one that I made. But let's talk about maintenance. So, especially if you're using your machine for mixed media fabrics that has paint and glue collage on it, then all of those little bits and pieces and particles or paper, they go inside your machine and they can really gunk up your machine. So, it's really important that you keep your machine clean. It's really important that you probably don't use a machine like this one, which is an expensive dress making machine for mixed media fabric. I have a little genome. I'm going to be filming some tutorials with that actually today. It was less than $100, and it's basically a throwaway machine. If I really screw it up because I get something in there and blow the motor, I think it cost me like $50. Well, that's not chump change by any stretch. It's still $50, but it's a lot less than this one, which was over $1,000. So, well over $1,000. I won't tell you how much exactly it was because you all have a heart attack. So, definitely you want to use a lesser expensive machine for mixed media fabric. You want to use maybe a used machine, something inexpensive. For what we're doing today is all fabric, so I don't have to worry about it. But whatever machine you have, you should do maintenance on it. Most of your owner's manuals are going to have a section for cleaning and oiling in the back somewhere. Mine has a back here. Each machine is a little different. My old machine, which was a brother, I could take more of it apart to get at the moving parts to clean and oil it than I can with this one. FOP really doesn't want you. They don't really want you to get inside there. So, I can only do so much to it, and then every couple of years or so, I have to take it to a proper sewing machine repair place and have them really take it apart and do a good cleaning and oiling on it. Especially if I've been doing a lot of sewing. So, that being said, I have my husband take it to his garage workspace. He's got a hobby space in the garage, and he used his air compressor to get to the places he could get to and blow as much dust and, you know, fabric fibers and whatever he could out of it. And then when I got it back in here, really the only place you can oil it is here. And this foot plate lifts up. There we go. And you can oil in there also. So, he took this off to clean. So, it was already off. So, then when I got it back inside and it was oiled and everything, I did have to readjust all my tension settings, because unlike at the sewing machine repair place where they clean it and then they test it and they reset all the tension for you, because my husband didn't do that. It was all screwed up. But that's fine. It was free. So, I did that and it's actually running much better this morning and much quieter. So, remember to check your own years manual. Remember to do regular maintenance, keep your machine clean. Remember to use good sewing machine oil on it. This is Singer Sewing Machine Oil. Hey, Kathy. And so, now we're going to start. That being said, that's my little speech. Hey, Frankie, that's my little speech about machine maintenance. Make sure you've read your manual. Right? You know how to thread your machine, set the tension on your machine. Everyone's different. Read your manual. There's no shortcut. And make sure you give it regular maintenance. Your owner's manual will tell you how often maintenance is recommended, depending on how much you sew. Usually it depends on how much you sew with the machine. And it will tell you so many hours of sewing you should go get it clean. And a can of compressed air. I have a husband with an air compressor. But if you don't have that, which a lot of people don't, and we didn't for a long time, a can of compressed air works really well. And I also keep in my sewing box, which is right here kind of off-camera. I keep a couple of soft, bristled paint brushes, and you can tell when I flick them all the dust that goes everywhere. These are just for cleaning the dust and crud out of my machine. So I have a couple of them in there. I lift the plates up and pull the bobbin out. And I'm in here brushing all the balls of fuzz out. And now if you're going to sew jeans on any machine, make sure you use a jeans needle. Don't try to sew jeans with a needle meant for knits or a thin, fine fabric needle. If you're going to sew jeans on your machine, make sure you use a denim needle. Watch the Denim Traveler's Notebook video, because I talk about specifically sewing with denim and the things you shouldn't do when sewing with denim, especially repurved denim. Because there are tricks to it, and you don't want to sew over the big thick double top stitched seams because there's not a lot of machines that are going to sew over that, not home machines. You really need, this one has a differential feed and a pretty strong motor, and it still even has trouble. Most of you aren't going to be able to do that. So go watch the Denim Jeans video. I do recommend that if you're going to do stuff with lots of jeans. And yeah, we're going to make some journal cover. All right, so I have a friend who wanted me to make her one to fit a composition book for our My Journal 2017 program. We're going to have coming out for the Facebook, my Facebook group and the sisters group, sister groups. Hey, Toy. Toy is one of the ones that had a question this morning. So I thought that I made hers already this morning, and I'll share it in a second. But I thought while I was doing it, you know, maybe we should do one out of just plain canvas. I should show you guys how to figure out how to make the same kind of Traveler's Notebook style cover for a bigger notebook. Yeah, so you can use a homemade notebook. You can use a store-bought notebook. This is just an inexpensive composition book. Maybe you want your notebook cover to have, and this question came up, to have mixed media paper in it or watercolor paper in it. So you've bought a notebook that has it in it, or maybe you've made one. So whatever size notebook or kind of notebook you end up getting, this is going to be the video that's going to show you how to figure out how to make a cover for that, yeah? The first question we're going to answer this morning is about this stuff. So these are just scraps, and I've saved them because I have an idea of something we're going to do with them in an upcoming video. This stuff is called Extra Firm Stabilizer. This is from the interfacing department of your fabric store, and it's purposefully meant for making tote bags, handbags, fabric sculptures with. That's what it was made for, what it was invented for, and it's washable. Yeah, so Gail, that's what this video is for, and it's going to be recorded and saved to the channel for anybody else who wants to do that, and I'll probably add some note to the title for people. Okay, so anyway, this stuff comes two ways. It comes like this, which is a sew-in, and both sides of this feel the same. There is a version of this that's fusible, that means it has a heat reactive glue on one side, and when you iron it to the fabric, it sticks. Don't get that one. You're going to just cause yourself more trouble than you need if you try to use that one. You want the sew-in kind for this. It's the easiest thing to work with. And it's about, right now, joanns.com has it for $3 a yard. I know because I looked right before we went live as I was eating my protein bar. Yeah, okay, so the original one of these toy was made to fit Midori-style notebooks or the Moleskine Cayet notebooks. Okay. The first thing you want to do is measure. I need my tape measure. Hang on. I had to clean out my sewing box so I could find all my tape measures. I kept buying tape measures because I couldn't find them, and now I have like six of them. I'm going to have to put some into some future mystery boxes. Okay. That stabilizer is fabulous. You know, I prefer making like handbags, tote bags, journal covers, mixed media things with my sewing. And so that's overdressmaking. So that stabilizer is fabulous. It's a regular in my studio. Okay. So whatever notebook you're using, okay, whichever one you're using, you want to keep it closed. Start with your tape measure at the outside edge of one side. This is where the end is, where the one inch is, right? Wrap it all the way around to the back side. And it's going to be about like 15 and a half. 15, it's like 15 and 3 eighths. Okay. So you want to write that down. Then you want to measure from the top edge to the bottom edge, and this is about nine and three quarters. Or this is just a composition book. Yours is going to be different. Okay, don't open it flat and then measure from end to end because you're going to get a smaller measurement and if you do it when it's closed and you want to be able to close your cover. You don't want to make your cover, put it on notebook and then have it not be able to close, have it be like this. So make sure you measure it by wrapping it around like I just did. Wrap it all the way around and then measure. Okay, whatever notebook. So Toy, I know you and some others had questions about paper content. There's a lot of you wanted, you know, specific kinds of notebooks because you want to be able to paint in it. So in our upcoming My Year video, My Year 2017 video where I start making my journal for the year and I won't tell you too much about how I have the setup but I will tell you that the paper I'm using is file folder paper. That holds up to most mediums very well. I'm not going to be watercoloring in it so I'm not worried about that but it holds up to a lot of gluing and stuff. So there's, you know, you may want to watercolor in it, you may want to do something else in it. So maybe you want to get a watercolor notebook, maybe you want to make one. But yeah, measure twice and cut once. Gail's completely right on that. So make sure you have your measurements straight. Once you have your measurements and you know what your measurements are, add two inches. Two inches. This particular notebook cover is going to fit a little differently than the Midori style one. So the traveler's notebook one. So if, and I don't know what happened there, I just went like this on the video screen. Okay, so if you want it to fit like a traveler's notebook and be held in with elastic, only add one inch. If you want it to be held in the way the one I already made this morning is, you need to add two inches. What do I mean by that? I'm going to show you. I'm going to get the littler one. I think it'll be easier to see. Hold on a second. Okay, this is a little leather traveler's notebook. This is like a personal size, okay? But the concept is the same. So the handmade travelers' notebooks have three eyelet holes in it for putting the elastic in, just like this one. And the notebooks are held in with the elastic cord by slipping them in through the elastic, right? So if you want your handmade canvas notebook to be that way, only add one inch to your measurements for your notebooks that you're going to use. If you want it to be held in the way I did the one for my friend this morning, then you want to add two inches. I'm not going to tell you about how the fabric or anything about this one, because there's a video coming out about this. But I will tell you, she wanted the eyelets in any way because she hangs charms and things off of them. She doesn't hold the notebook in with them. So okay. And even if she did, she still could. The cover would be a little large, but it would still work. And if she did a lot of gluing and pasting or decided to put two notebooks in here, adding the two inches allows for plenty of room for a couple of notebooks. There's plenty of space for a couple of notebooks to be in here and the cover to still cover the books. But I made it so that she can just slip the cover into these pockets on the front. And she didn't have to use the eyelets if she didn't want to. So if you want to do that with the intention of using the eyelets or not, then add two inches. If you know you're going to use the eyelets, only add one inch. And yes, there's a Galaxy painting tutorial coming up in August, and there's a Galaxy Travelers Notebook video coming up in August. All right. Any questions? Yes. Because I'm going to throw some more curveballs at you guys before we actually get sewing. All right. So the other curveball I'm going to throw at you, show at you, I don't have any eyelets at all. You don't have to put those on. That's cool. But you do want a closure. This is a Velcro band from some linens I bought recently. And it already came just like this. And it's almost the perfect length to sew to the outside of one of these journal covers on the spine as you're sewing it together. And you just leave it dangling. And when you're working on it, it's just dangling. And when you're done, you just put the Velcro band on. And this I have the small Travelers Notebook ones already listed in Etsy. The large ones I don't know. It already has been suggested. I have to tell you guys though, I know how to sew and I enjoy it a little, but it's not my favorite thing. Holy cow, you guys. I probably shouldn't say that out loud, but it's just not. I may sell this demo one. That may be one that I sell. I don't know if I'm going to make more than that. I may do special orders. We'll see. Yeah, for heavy paper, you'd want two inches I think because the paper is going to be thick. So with this, like I said, this is a found this is a found thing. It came on some linens I bought, but you definitely could sew it to the spine here when you're sewing your notebook. And once you put your notebook in here and you could shorten it if you wanted to fit more snugly. And I would probably do it a little bit, but then you would have this cute band on here that would hold everything closed. So that's an option for something you can do. And I do have a belly band video that's coming up and you could definitely make a belly band like the one I have on my travel case. And you could make a belly band like this. And I'm distracted by the comments. Okay, so you could put a belly band on here, a handmade belly band that you made out of something special. And you could sew it on here before you put the notebook in. And you definitely could. And then that would hold everything nicely closed together. Instead of doing Anna, if you're going to do a belly band, I would just omit one because you're going to need to sew the belly band right there. But maybe you want to still put a top one so you can hang journal terms or something off of it. So those are just some thoughts I wanted to share with you this morning. And it's way easier to have a demo like cover and props to show you here on a live broadcast than it is to try to type it up for you guys. It's way easier to do it here. Okay, once you have your measurements you need to cut two big rectangles for the inside and the outside. Then you need to fold them in half. Move my sewing parts. And this is just natural canvas, natural plain canvas. You need to fold them in half. And then you need to cut some rectangles that are about three quarters of the width of the cover and the full height. You're going to need four of these. And then you're going to need to cut a big rectangle of the stabilizer that's the same size as the rectangles of canvas, the big rectangles of canvas. So these should all be approximately the same size. Now before we get started I need to change my thread because the one I was sewing was black. Now you definitely you definitely can sew your cover with contrasting thread. But I would probably recommend matching thread. That's up to you though. We're mixed media artists, there's no rules. So where can you get what at toy? I'm not sure what you're asking. You mean the belly band or this gray velcro band that I have? My bob in a way and my thread spool. Wait, it doesn't go in there. Alright, so we're going to put it in matching thread. So I've got some off-light sewing thread here. So remember to read your machine for the instructions for how it should be threaded because each one is going to be a little bit different. Oh, the canvas. Okay, so I found this at Joann's. Hobby Lobby has it too. It's not hard to find. Go look near sometimes it's near the upholstery department. Sometimes it's near the outdoor fabrics and they call it canvas duck cloth. Sometimes you can find denim which is a similar weight and texture of fabric and you can find it in a natural color. I prefer the canvas because the texture is the same on both sides or similar enough that you can't tell if there's a right side or a wrong side. So I prefer the canvas but I recently just got some at Hobby Lobby so I know they have it and they have the natural color which is my favorite. And then they also had colors and patterns too. I've also done things like this out of duck cloth and duck cloth is an outdoor fabric and it works really well. I'm going to get out some of my fabric scissors because this has got a fold I need to cut it now. We're not going to hem the edges or anything. We are going to leave everything open and free so you're going to get lots of these and it's going to fray but we like that and we're going to end up stitching all the raw edges so it's going to fray but it's only going to go so far. You can use art canvas, sure you can. You're not going to get the fun frayed edges but it should sew up just fine and I actually have some of that in the closet. The nice thing about some of the art canvas is it's already pre-jessoed so if you're going to paint on it then you don't have to prep it or anything. Alright so we're going to fold our looking on camera to see make sure you guys can see what I'm doing. I'm going to lower the camera just a little bit. Hang on a second and I'm going to move it back. Yeah that's better. Okay so we're going to fold these rectangles. I have all of them together and you know I'm not about precision. Trying to be perfect just makes me crazy and makes my anxiety worse so I just give up. I don't try anymore. If you're really like precision like you have to have everything precise then you should measure this. I'm not going to. It's pricier so use a coupon Gail. Definitely use a coupon. Okay so we're going to fold this in thirds approximately and we're going to cut off one third. Oh crap. Not of all of them. Dang it. Now we've got to fix that. See I'm not perfect by any stretch. Only have two of them. I'll show you how to fix that now that I goofed. Alright so you want to have two of them that you've cut like this. Don't do this. I'll show you how to fix it. So we're going to take this mistake one and I'm going to put it under the presser foot. I'm going to push the cut together. I'm going to set my machine for a small tight zigzag. Okay I'm going to zigzag over that a few times and that'll solve that problem. Let's do the other one. I need to do that one one more time. I missed a spot. All these threads made me crazy. So you can fix that. See look let's do this one one more time because I missed a spot. Only cut two of them. Don't cut all four of them. Do not do what I just did. Okay Now if you do do something like that that can be hidden. So nobody knows it's there. Make sure that you do that. If you do that though so I definitely recommend that you do this. Give it a tug and make sure the fabric holds it's holding fine. Alright Like with the traveler's notebook pattern you definitely have my permission to take the idea for doing this and the traveler's notebook and create some for any upcoming arts and crafts fairs you have coming going on or Christmas fairs or anything like that. These would make great gifts and the few that I have put in my Etsy shop are selling fairly well so sorry Water break. So now if you are making these for gift or for sale it's always a good idea to have some little embroidered labels made with your name on them. I've had these for a long time. I actually need to order some more and I've got to try to figure out where to do that because I haven't ordered these in like 20 years so good thing my name hasn't changed. Alright so I'm going to take one of the smaller pockets and I'm going to just eyeball it and I'm going to center it on the pocket and I'm going to go back to a straight stitch on my machine and I'm going to stitch all the way around the little label. Don't forget to fire questions at me if you guys have questions. I've got my iPad right here so I can see what's going on in the chat. Cut your threads. No coffee today. Water. I think I've had too much coffee the last few days. Last night I was so stressed I ate chocolate for dinner. It's just not. I should stay away from that caffeine. Alright so now we're going to take all of the four shorter pieces that we have. We have our two, what are going to be our two larger pockets and our two short pockets, right? We're going to take all four of these and we're going to sew across the top a little bit away from the edge to just stabilize the top edge so that we can, we're going to let it rattle but it can only go so far. Oh see I need to have some labels made Gail. Maybe you and I should talk. Alright so I'm going to line up the cut edge of the fabric with the presser foot, right? And I'm going to just stitch straight across the top. I'm going to, I am going to go back and forth at the front, at the beginning in the end to lock my stitches so things don't unravel. You should go slower than that, especially if you're new to sewing. I'm not going to cut, take that one out and cut the threads. I'm going to keep going. That one's ending. I'm going to stick the next one under the presser foot. And I'm going to take the big one and I want to sew across the top. Now you definitely, when you're assembling your pockets, you know you want to think about how you want your pockets to work. So when you're assembling your pockets, you're going to be able to get into here and the way I do it you can get into here and then you can get into the little one but maybe on this one you want to go in that way and then get in the little one. You have to decide how you want your pockets and wherever you want the opening to be you want to do this line of stabilizing stitching across the opening wherever you want that to be. That's not the right one. I almost did it wrong again. So you used to be able to go gale down to the sewing store and you know just order labels through the fabric store. You can't do that anymore. Of course that kind of dates me, I know. And there is always T. I'm going to be having green T next. You can, if you use a serger for this, you can. Gale especially if you do not like the raviled edges then doing a serger for this part would be fabulous because you would cut and finish the edge at the same time and it's not going to rattle. You could probably do this whole thing for a serger but when you sew all the layers together then you're going to have to readjust your tension. So you're going to want to save your scraps for readjusting your tension for that final step. Okay Kathy, see you later. Yeah, I know. See you right well. I'm right there with you Gale. I'm dated too. Alright, so we're going to take our two long rectangles and I'm going to move them around because I want to hide my mistake although I stabilized it. That doesn't mean I want it to show. And I'm going to let's see actually this one's more stable than that one. I want to do some more stitching on this one so let's do that. I should just cut new rectangles but the fabric is way up in the closet and the closet's right behind the camera. So if you make a mistake like this just make sure that you fixed it and you fixed it properly. It was really a dumb mistake and basically stitching it over it so many times and putting new threads on it's like creating a big patch on the fabric. Oh yeah, that's way better. Okay. Okay, I did, you know the second one worked well. Yeah, see our Hancock fabric's closed so you might want to get over there and if you're going to buy anything from Hancocks get over there and do it quickly because they're closing or we're going to go back to our straight stitch here. Now whatever side of your long rectangle is going to be accessed like the small pockets you have to sew the stabilizing stitch down that edge. Extra sewing makes me crazy. You're right. It is funny that I'm not crazy about sewing because it's the first arts and crafts thing that I ever learned to do sewing making doll clothes on the sewing machine. Oh hey, me bear creations. Hey, yeah, I'm still alive. I talk too much so of course I'm live. Just call me Chattie Caffe that's what my husband does or Dory. That's his new nickname for me Dory because you know let's just say I'm very Dory like on a good day. Yeah, all of them are closing. I only have Joanns or I have to drive into San Francisco to go to Britex and I do think there's a mood in San Francisco so but I haven't been there yet. I don't like driving in San Francisco. So I'm going to line my pockets up on my large rectangles make sure I have my labels facing right side up. Okay. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take our small pocket and attach it to our bigger pocket. I have a tendency to not line them up at the bottom and to like bring it up to like here because I just assume who's ever going to have the journal probably has like sticky notes or something in here and they don't need all the vertical height. We're doing a traveler's notebook style cover but for a composition book. Okay, so just line it up until it's straight and then we're going to sew around the outside edges and attach it to the larger pocket. Make sure you go backward and forward at the two sides of the top edge a couple times that's going to get a lot of wear and tear from people going in and out of it. Stop about a quarter of an inch from the bottom edge lift up your presser foot with the needle down and turn your fabric and stitch across again stop about a quarter inch from the edge needle down lift up your presser foot turn your fabric. Those if you have sewn I know that's like we're done because you know how to do that but there's some newbies here that have no idea. Okay, we're going to sew straight up when we get to the top again we're going to go back and forth a few times just to make sure those stitches are good and locked in. We're going to cut the threads and now we have our little pocket sewn to our bigger pocket so we're going to do that to the other side. I also made a lot of my own clothes in high school too. Let's just say I was the nerd girl. I wasn't you know high fashion or anything. I'm still not. Okay, same way stop at the corner with the needle down and then move the fabric around. If you don't stop with the needle down then you have a chance of the stitches going wonky for lack of a better term. So you want to make sure the needle is down so that everything stays stable and stays lined up. See I broke my thread. That was my fault. If you guys want other great sewing tutorials, I do recommend and I recommended this last time we did a broadcast too. Stitchless TV holy cow I love that channel it almost makes me want to go so close again. Not quite but almost I would rather somebody else make the clothing for me but I love her style. We're going to turn. So when you have that happen and you're in the middle of a seam and the thread breaks when you re-thread your machine and you restart, go about an inch or so back and start on top of the thread the stitches that you already did and sew back and forth a little bit and then keep going. Okay, so hold on and I'll tell you. What I did is when I went to approach my corner to stop the needle and turn I kind of went too far and instead of hitting the back button I manually adjusted the needle and if you do that then your thread is probably going to break. The other thing is to make sure your machine is threaded correctly because sometimes if it's not threaded correctly one of the ways you're going to be able to tell is that you're going to have a lot of thread breakage. Alright, so now I don't know what quotes you're talking about Lisa. Now we're going to take our pockets quills. Some of them are beautiful. Now we're going to take our pockets and we're going to attach them to our inside flap. I'm going to line up the bottom of my pocket with the bottom of the inside flap and I'm going to line up the outside edge and we're going to start at the top of one side of the big pocket and we're going to attach it to the inside flap the same way we did the small pocket to the big pocket. No worries Gail, I talk a lot too. So what you want to do when you get to the corner is you want to stop with the needle down but you don't want to and you want to turn the wheel on the side towards you. But if you do this and you've gone too far don't turn it back away from you and try to go backwards manually. Hit the back button instead. What I did is I turned the wheel backwards manually and I know better than to do that. I just didn't even think about it. When you do that with the wheel the thread usually breaks. And then up the other side. Don't go that fast. Go slower, slower. Jeez, I can't speak today. Alright. Cut your threads. As you work with this canvas it's going to start doing this. But that's what we want it to do. So as I'm working with it, I'm just going ahead and pulling these out or cutting them off because I want them to come off anyway. So now we have our inside flap with a big pocket and a little pocket. Found a thread. See I'm glad that you guys all do the same things I do. All alone. So now we're going to do the other one. Line it up. So this is my button to go backwards and forwards. Every machine is a little bit different so find out where yours is and to go backwards and forwards. Hey, Alessandra. Hello, how are you today? Go again. Stop it. When you get near the corner slow down. Stop with the needle down. If you need to manually adjust the needle, turn the wheel towards you. Don't turn it away from you. If you've gone too far use your back button. Lift up the presser foot and turn. Keep your fingers out of here. I thought about last night. This is sharp and pointy and it hurts to sew your finger. Guess how I know that? So don't stick your fingers under there. And if you're sewing with fabric with sequins on it, God help you. Then you might want to put a pair of glasses on because those sequins can pop and hit you in the face and they kind of hurt. Guess how I know that? Alright, so now we have our inside pocket. The front inside pocket is usually the one where I put my label. For those of you who are going to do these for gifts or for sale in your craft shows, I recommend putting your label on the inside. One of the inside front pockets. You could put it here on the little one. You could put it on the big one or you could put it on the top up here. You probably want to figure out where to put the label to do the assembly of the pockets. Alright. Go away a little bit. Alright, so hopefully you guys can see this. We're going to do our assembly. I've got my jar of pins. I still have done nothing about a pin cushion but I've got my jar of pins. You're going to need a mark making tool. You can use a pencil. I'm going to use this blue Taylor's chalk which comes in a pack with a blue one and a white one at any fabric store, hobby lobby, any of them have it. You could use a pencil. I wouldn't recommend using anything too dark on this natural canvas especially if you don't plan on painting like the inside of it because you're stuck with that black mark or dark mark. Sometimes some of the pins that are in here are collage pins. I prefer a really long pin for most of my sewing because I really don't do dress making anymore. I mostly do this kind of sewing when I do so and so I need longer pins to get through all the layers. I usually have some sort of collage pin or a longer heavy duty sewing pin. My pins are usually at least two inches long if not three. I think most of these are two and they usually have a decent size like pearl or bead on the end. Now we're going to do our assembly. We're going to take our two inside flaps and one of the big panels and we're going to set that aside. We're going to take the other piece of canvas and we're going to lay it down. Now if you have canvas that has a pattern on it you want that pattern or design to be face down towards your table and then put the stiffener on top of it. Then put your other rectangle on top of that. Line up all your corners if you can. Now again if you have a fabric with a design on it the design here you want it to be face up and this one you want it to be face down so that the wrong sides are towards the inside towards the white stiffener. Then you want to take your inside flaps and you want to line up the outside corners of them with the fabric and everything else. Now I did do one of these where I was doing so many of them and I lost track of what I was doing and I done my stabilizing stitch on the wrong side that flap. I had to pull it off and sew it down this side and then put it back. It wasn't a huge deal but mistakes happen. Now we have this all assembled I like to pin the layers together at least a little bit so things don't shift. I'm leaving the edges frayed. You don't have to do that but I like the frayed crazy edges on canvas. Now you could those of you who do more sewing than some you could of course do this where you put everything right sides together and basically sew it as a large pocket leave yourself an opening cut down the stabilizer to fit inside that pocket and then stitch the opening closed so that all the raw edges are inside but for this it's supposed to be an artistic kind of expressive journal cover and there's just something about the frayed edges and you're going to paint on it and you're going to decorate it ideally that's why I do them in plain canvas and there's just something about those frayed edges and they're interesting. Alright so I'm going to put one of these big pins in it each corner and I'll show you Mibare Creations I'll show you what I'm going to do with the edges we're not going to leave the stabilizer hanging out on the edges because I'm sure some of you who haven't watched the Traveler's Notebooks videos are like well that's not attractive and those of you who came late didn't see the one I made for my friend so alright so I have it just minimally pinned at each corner we're going to use a three quarter inch seam allowance your machine should have markings on the plate by your presser foot that will tell you oh that's what it was on top of it was like why, oops why is my machine like rolling around, it was on top of the seam rubber alright so your machine should have marks down here on the plate by the presser foot that tells you different seam allowance widths it may have the lines without the numbers mine actually has the number markings if it doesn't have the numbers then you're going to want to measure with a ruler with the needle down get a little tiny ruler in there and measure from the needle push the ruler up against the needle and measure and see which line is three quarters of an inch and I would recommend if you're some of the older machines have the lines but no numbers so I would recommend marking all the lines if you can put a piece of tape there and mark all the lines I had an old machine that didn't have the numbers on it now if you're really if you care more if you care about the way the stitching works on the looks on the outside then I would recommend this next step sewing it from the outside if you're more worried about catching all the layers and not having any puckers do it from the inside so we are going to and sometimes if I've cut my big rectangles kind of wonky and they're really uneven then I'll do it from the left side that's more important which is usually the outside alright in this case they're actually I did a decent job this time that's not always true alright I usually start from about the center of this space between the inside front and back flap so the stiffener you can get at any fabric store I am not sure if they have it at Hobby Lobby only because I haven't looked but they probably do they do have the natural canvas and duck cloth at Hobby Lobby which is usually what I make this out of this is canvas and I've gotten canvas at Hobby Lobby I got the stiffener at Joann's I usually get it at Joann's but that's just because I haven't had a chance to go look at Hobby Lobby yet there is no more Hancock fabrics by me there is a mood and there is Britex but they're way up in San Francisco that's like an hour away from me so I just go where it's available Joann's.com has the stiffener right now for $3 a yard I saw today I've got my cut edge of my fabric lined up with a 3 quarter inch seam mark on the plate here and I'm going to hold my threads and I'm going to go back and forward a little bit and we're going to just get going I'm going to hold my flap down so it sews down flat there you go you don't have to go fast this is the part where I said somebody said something about a serger you could do this part on a serger but you would want to you would really need to mess with the tension adjustment I think it would be difficult you might want to serge all your pieces and then sew it together with a regular machine and that's probably what I would recommend I'm going to move this just a little bit for me and I'm going to take this don't sew over your pins pull them out before you get there just take your time you don't have to go fast if you go too far hit your back button the same thing with the other parts turn your corners with the needle down and then lift your presser foot up pull your pins out before you get there and I love the natural canvas too Alessandra it just gives you so many options and I love the way the colors of paint look on the natural canvas it's definitely my favorite and for those of you who joined late again the other one I made for my friend and I'm not going to tell you how I made the fabric because that tutorial is coming in August and I did make the fabric if you get to any part like I find this on a couple of them at the end and you have it seems like you have more fabric on the inside or outside than you have on the other side and you like think you're going to get like a wrinkle hold the back hold the front to sew so that you don't sew in a pucker I really have to do something about my pin cushion one more short side oh thanks presser foot down now once you get used to sewing these kind of travelers notebook covers whether they're for composition notebook size like this one or they're for traditional like midori size or mosquing kayak size you can do like a whole bunch of inside flaps and then you know a whole bunch of the little pockets of labels and a whole bunch of the outsides and just you know you can do like an assembly line thing you'll get you know once you've done a couple of them you'll get pretty good at it you're going to get sick of making them if they're big sellers but you know let me turn this corner and I'll tell you another trick about not getting a wrinkle with these so the other trick about not getting a wrinkle is to take your stabilizer when you get to the end and it seems like you're going to have a pucker cut a couple of slits in it so take your take some scissors and just cut a couple like quarter inch or half inch long little snips in it and that'll allow you to not only pull the fabric open a little bit but to pull the stiffener open a little bit it'll help it stretch a little bit so I usually find when I have done that that it's at the end right here which we're at so I find right here at the end then I just take a firm grass grasp of this side facing me and I just pull it tight and then so until I get to my meat so back and forth and then cut your threads the other thing about doing all these sewing tutorials is I get used to sewing a lot when I was out in the garage studio when the studio was my space and I was able to just throw threads on the floor and I find myself continuing to do that but my husband comes in the house after work and says why is the floor covered with threads and I'm like I was doing sewing tutorials I I yeah I do a lot of things let's see I don't hold anything back not even when I make mistakes I don't understand the point in that alright so I'm going to pull some of these threads out the stuff that's hanging and you're going to start to get these fun frayed edges we want that okay so now now you're saying okay that's all well and good but you have this like white this white thing hanging out and you're like that's not attractive and when you do one in the black or dark fabric which again there's a tutorial coming up on making this fabric and then a few days later there's me making a traveler's notebook size one of these out of the same fabric and I had a friend who wanted me to make her one for a composition book so anyway so I'm not going to tell you how I made the fabric because it's coming but it really shows up on the white fabric and the black fabric because in between the layers you've got this white line so and the stiffener only comes in white so you really it's really important that you do this next step so that that stuff doesn't show because it's just not attractive avalanche we're going to just leave it so you want to take your cover you want to peel back the side of the fabric facing you and peel away from you the other other side of the fabric on either side of the stiffener basically so you just have the stiffener sticking up yeah and then you want to slowly and carefully run your scissors along and just cut all that excess stiffener off now you could trim your stiffener to size and then sew it together but I don't really recommend you do that because honestly that's going to just make you crazy trying to make sure you caught all the edges of that stiffener in your sewing as you're sewing around it's going to drive you nuts so just do it this way it's a lot easier and less craze inducing just don't go fast hold your fabric back if you have applique scissors if you're a seamstress and you've done a lot of sewing and you have applique scissors then you know what I'm talking about use those because those are perfect for this you don't have to have them just hold your fabric down on either side and just make sure that you're just cutting the stiffener now if you have sharp fabric scissors like I do I almost don't even need to move the scissors I just need to run the cut edge with the scissors open along the edge of the stiffener and these are so sharp it just cuts it right off more threads and oh my god well we're doing this I can tell you guys we cleaned out the trap the washing machine had this giant clog in the pipe and we cleaned it out holy cow that was disgusting oh yeah it's all clean now those of you who don't know I had some washing machine issues last night drove me up the wall had a mini meltdown for some reason I always have trouble to mean the last one I don't know why that is it's always an issue but you notice I'm not even like doing that with my scissors I have them open and these are so sharp and just running it along the edge and it's trimming it right off alright so once you've trimmed it then that's much nicer then you really don't see the stiffener and that's what you want and this natural canvas is perfect because you know you can either as you're going along and you're using it wipe stuff on here you have leftover paint or before you put your notebooks in here you know you can decorate it you can stencil on it you're never going to wash it probably so you can just use whatever you have if you're planning on washing it everything we've used to make this is washable so then you probably want to use fabric paint but I don't know that I would bother because the more nerfed up it gets to use one of Shannon Green's words which I just love the better it's going to look alright so now we have a cover a notebook cover and it has pockets in the inside and a flap in the front and pockets and a flap in the back perfect so now we're going to put eyelets in so if you're going to do a traditional Midori style notebook cover which you don't have to do get my stuff together here so again this is a Midori notebook or Midori notebook style everything's held in with elastic bands there's an elastic band that runs down the center and then there's usually a center hole where another elastic band comes out that you can wrap around your notebook so if you want to do one like this then you need to put eyelets in your cover and you could use elastic to hold your notebooks in or you could use a ribbon or yarn or some fun fibers you could use anything but you're going to need eyelets so if you want to design this one you don't have to do that because we did 2 inches bigger you can just use it with the flaps and you can just fit your inside cover inside the flaps and hold it in that way and do it without the eyelets you don't have to have the eyelets you could just put a belly band on whether one that's from a found object like this one and you could sew it to the center spine here I would probably I would probably if you're going to do something like that and maybe we'll do that to this one that would be interesting and I've had this piece of ribbon like laying around I don't know what to do with so I don't know what do you guys want to see me put the eyelets in or do you want me to see me put this belly band on there I've done the eyelets a couple of times now in the other Traveler's Note of videos and I can kind of walk you through the process but still put the belly band on how does that sound? put my tape measure away I've got a mini collection going on eyelets would be nice to see how about 2 eyelets and then I'll put the belly band on I know what I'm going to do I'm going to put this away we're going to need the tailors chuck but we're not going to need the steamer so I'm going to put all that away alright I did the eyelets in the other 2 Traveler's Notebook videos and I will but I think I know what I'm going to do with this one and we're going to put we're going to put 2 eyelets I think but we are going to use the belly band we're going to do both alright so what I would do if you're going to put a belly band then you want to wrap it around your journal and see where you want to position it and in this case this is a little bit long but I'm not sure I want to cut it because maybe at some point if I'm really adding a lot to my notebook I might need to let it out plus I'm just lazy so I think I'm going to just fold it and then stick it down plus you know when you put pens and pencils and stuff in here you're going to need a little bit of wiggle room because once you put like pens and pencils in here and you know sticky notes and stuff it's going to get a little fat so I'm just kind of pressing it into place and then I'm going to I'm going to stick a pin in here so I've got to take the notebook out actually I'm going to just pin the ribbon so that I know about how much that I want to shorten it like by about a half an inch or so I'm going to take the notebook out and put it somewhere so the first thing we're going to do is put the belly band on now if you were going to put an eyelet then it would go in the center of the spine where the belly band is going to go so you have to just do one or the other you shouldn't probably do both I do need to figure out where the center is so I'm going to fold my notebook in half now if you don't want to put marks one of the things I've been doing is I take my journal and I fold it in half and then at the top of the fold I stick a pin to mark that top edge and then at the bottom of the fold again making sure everything's lined up stick another pin so then you have a straight line to work with from pin to pin now when I'm sewing this belly band on whether you have Velcro or you have a clip and again I'm going to film the belly band video hopefully today and that one has clips on it but whether you have Velcro or clips you probably want them to be like you know you don't want them to be here on the edge you probably want them to be right here but you'll have to decide because maybe if they're big bulky clips you want them on the edge so that way when you're working in your journal they're not bumpy underneath what you're doing so you want to think about these things in case we have Velcro and it's really flat and it's not going to inhibit working on the journal at all so it's not a big deal but if you have bulky plastic clips maybe it would be a big deal hey Sabrina okay so I'm going to now carefully take my pin out of the ribbon and pin the ribbon to the canvas cover these two pins just because I think it's easier so that it's like that I'm going to get the machine back on here of course and we're going to carefully carefully carefully take the pins out very easily okay those pins are only in there so that when you get it to the machine things don't move around too much okay we're going to top stitch it down just with a straight stitch I'm going to start I can feel where the fold so I'm going to line it up with the edge of the presser foot and I'm going to stitch on one side lift up the presser foot with your needle down turn your cover around you're going to have to like roll it up so that you can get it underneath this part of the sewing machine lift your needle up go to the other side this is just a shortcut for those of us who are lazy crafters and you don't want to bother stopping your cutting threads alright now we're going to go to the other side okay stitch it a couple of times pull it out cut all your threads cut that little bridge thread that bridges the two sides together don't take these upper and lower pins out yet you're going to need them in a minute so now we've got our belly band sewn on now you're going to need a pencil or some taylor's chalk again taylor's chalk comes in usually blue and white sometimes you can find it in like yellow red and black we have a little piece of those around here somewhere I've had forever but most of the time you just see blue and white and that works fine white for dark fabrics, blue for light fabrics so now we know where our center spine is right here because of our pinheads and we're going to take a ruler lining up the edge of our two pinheads so we have a straight line and marking in about an inch down on one edge putting a little like half cross you want to put a horizontal line at the one inch and a vertical line right up against the edge of the ruler alright and then you want to do the same thing at the bottom and I'll show you what that looks like in a second so that's that you see the little blue marks we have one at the top and one at the bottom so your best thing next thing you're going to need is some eyelets and you're going to need a way to punch a hole and you're going to need a hammer get your frustrations out with a hammer you can get eyelet kits at the fabric store Josie if you have artist canvas because it has a layer of gesso on it you may not need the stabilizer and you know you can always do any of this with any fabric even denim without the stabilizer it's just going to be a bit more floppy the other thing that you could do if you can't get the stabilizer if you don't have it you don't have the budget to go buy it you could put a third layer of fabric in there and it could basically be a throw away fabric it could be anything so think about that and maybe if you're doing it with artist canvas the inside and outside are artist canvas but the inside is just a piece of your husband's old blue jeans or something think outside the box we're mixed media artists so there's no rules so you're going to need an eyelet kit to put the eyelets in and an eyelet kit will usually come with your eyelets and then it'll come with the setting tools this is the eyelet kit without that that'll come both ways make sure if you don't already have the setting tools that you buy the one that has these tools in it okay but these large eyelets they're available at the fabric store again like with the stabilizer if you don't have eyelets you don't have any way to get eyelets like Josie she's in Italy, I don't know how hard it is to get things some places it's really hard to get stuff even here in the states so you definitely could do a lot of other things you could just omit the eyelets and just do the belly band you could do buttonholes if you know how to do a buttonhole and you're an experienced seamstress you could put a little buttonhole at the top and the bottom why couldn't you you could if you want if you're only using the eyelet hole to hang charms off of you could just sew a little loop of fabric to the outside of the top or the bottom if you're going to use it for a midori style system to hold your notebooks in you could sew a little loop of fabric to the top and bottom on the inside and do that so you know think outside the box eyelets are easy and I have okay people I have a large box of eyelets so this is a way for me to use them up and these literally the size on these it just says large eyelets these are by dritz they're a quarter inch eyelet but the package just says large eyelets and obviously I have an eyelet hoarding problem because you know make sure I've got the right eyelets some of the quarter inch ones here let's see some of these are shiny and some aren't so I want to make sure I get ones that are matching and have huge giant ones alright let's see well we got the journal cover almost together Gail so I have my eyelets out I've got the eyelets will come in two parts one has a longer flange on it on the inside and the other one has a shorter one you could call them a male and a female one so you need one of each for each hole your eyelet kits will usually come with directions you can hit it on the replay Gail alright so now the next thing punching holes the best way to punch holes because you can't set the eyelets without putting a hole you could do it the really hard old fashioned way by drawing a little hole and cutting it out with scissors okay don't do that it's just going to make you crazy trust me get out your crocodile and use your crocodile it works like a charm so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my pins out because I made my marks now I don't need my pins anymore I'm going to get out my crocodile and this is I have no idea if they come in different sizes or not this is a crocodile too it's all I know about it so we're going to use the larger hole on the crocodile and I'm going to put it underneath here and I'm going to line up my blue mark with where the larger hole punches and I'm going to punch one hole right on top of my blue mark one hole towards the center and I'm going to do a double cover but hitting that first hole and then one hole towards the side so three punches all together so that you get something that looks like that okay and then we're going to do the same thing on the other end we have a belly band on here so you want to push that out of the way now if you were going to do the center eyelet then you want to make sure you mark that and you do the hole the same way oh big bite that's what it's called when I started getting into scrapbooking it makes immediate it was like the first thing I bought so one hole right on top of the mark one hole to the top of that hole and one hole to the side so you have three holes together and you're making kind of a bigger hole right then we're going to push the taller one of the eyelets through the outside into the inside through our hole that we just made just to work at it a little bit you'll get it if you do the three holes together it'll fit in just fine then the little black piece goes lined up with that eyelet you just put in and there are grooves for the eyelet to sit in alright then put the shorter piece on top of that and then the other piece of your setting tool on top of that yeah you could do that Josie go to the shoe repair shop I tend to do them myself I might like working with a hammer though I might have issues this is a hammer my father in law gave me years ago before he passed away and I'll treasure it always anyway here we go try not to hit your fingers there we go one eyelet let's do the other one yeah if you don't want to bother with the eyelet part just make sure you mark them clearly and then go to your little if you have like a shoe repair mount and have him do it I like my middle name is neither patients or grace so I would rather do it myself okay next alright so we've got our two eyelets now again if you were going to do it with you know traditional midori notebook style or travelers notebook style there'd be a third eyelet but in lieu of that if you don't want that third eyelet you think the elastic closure bands just a giant pain in the butt then put a belly band on alright so now you can put an elastic band between your two holes and you can put your notebook in that way and then you have all of these pockets in the front inside and outside cover to put stuff in these larger notebook covers though I sized them so that you don't have to do that you could if you want to but they're sized so that your composition notebook will just fit in without having to bother with the holes if you wanted to you can hang charms off the holes you could thread a ribbon through the cover joining the two holes and then put beads on there or something like that and then we have our belly band which is just big enough to get pens and stuff in there there you go so if you're just joining me late then know that I got a lot of questions about making these notebook covers in different sizes we have a couple of videos out already on my channel for making a version of these one out of old blue jeans in a traditional Midori notebook, traveler's notebook size or a strap for the shoulder and after I aired those videos a lot of people wanted to know what if you want to use something bigger than a Midori notebook or a Moleskink high-a how do you figure that out so that was the purpose of this video at the same time I had a friend who wanted to know if I would make one for her out of this fabric which she'd seen and you guys will see next month how I made this fabric she wanted all three of the eyelets so here's what it looks like with all the eyelets and here's what it looks like with the belly band and she wanted it for a composition notebook and she basically had the same question you guys did so I thought well I should just do a video and then I realized I should just go live it's easier so that was how this came about the instructions for figuring out the measurements for your notebook whatever one you're going to use are in the very beginning of this broadcast so make sure you watch that part it's important and make sure you measure your notebook a couple of times a little bit bigger cover is better than one that's too small especially if you're like me and you end up gluing a lot of stuff to your notebook and you know it's going to end up looking like this when you're done and you definitely could in the center here like put a long strap or you could put you could sew in a couple of loops with clips on them that you could clip a long strap to it to carry it around yeah there's a lot of different options and you have my permission again to make these for you know upcoming craft fairs and things that you're maybe doing if you're doing craft show circuit the Christmas craft show circuit or summer craft show circuit in either version either this version or the traveler's notebook size and you could make little ones this is a little leather traveler's notebook but you know you could just resize it and make a little teeny tiny one so it's all in the measurements you know me bear creations it's really all in the measurements when you're measuring your notebook make sure you're measuring it with it closed and you're starting at the front edge hold your tape measure there and you're wrapping it around to the back edge you're going to get a different measurement than if you open it flat it's great for kids going back to school and you know bonus they can write on the cover because you don't care if they write on the cover the purpose is to decorate the cover they could have their class schedule inside in the pockets yeah it would be great I don't know if I'm going to put these bigger ones in my Etsy shop the little ones are already in my Etsy shop the link to the shops in the description already below I don't know if I'm going to put these bigger ones in there I don't mind doing sewing tutorials but I don't know about doing a lot of sewing for sale no I don't know I got to think about it I don't know so what's it wide enough for the notebook that you used in it but you know just save it for a different notebook and maybe or cut that notebook down if you are brave enough to do that and have one of those old fashioned guillotine paper trimmers or take it to staples or your office supply and have them trip the notebook for you they have a fabulous paper trimmer and you can you can like take your notebook if it's if the cover you made is too small for your notebook like especially if it's just like a quarter of an inch measure how much smaller the notebook needs to be and and you know make some lines on the outside of the notebook and then take it to the office supply and have them trim it on their fancy trimmer how many orders can they take holy moly you got a private message to me we'll see I don't know this is so for a living I stopped doing it for a reason gail I want to encourage you all to do them it's all ready to decorate see I might have to keep this one because this is cute so these are all parts that are easy to find at your fabric store nothing should be super hard to find even the stiffener all of your fabric stores should have it in stock the tailors talk believe it or not is not the heart is not hard to find it should be over by your sewing notions you can do it gail once you get like past the third one it's going to be a piece of cake you just need a lot of eyelets I do have the travelers notebook size ones I think I have one denim one and two or three natural canvas in stock I forget but if you look at the Etsy shop it'll tell you which ones are in stock and in which colors right I'm envious I don't have any grandchildren yet then again my daughter's only 21 so I can wait a little bit I'd like her to finish college alright guys I think that's it I got more sewing videos to film we are going to film I'm going to use these scraps to make a fabric collage bookmarky things so when you're doing this don't throw these away because these are nice these are perfect width and great stiffness to do a bookmark and you could cut them in half or cut you know I don't know a quarter of it off and then do sort of a fabric collage on it on both sides with scraps of fabric or sew it to a plain piece of fabric and then scraps of ribbon and lace and different things to the other side that would be fun you could paint on it I'm sure so I wouldn't throw these away because they would be cute um what else do we have I could give you a tease quick tease so we are going to do sewing 101 is going to do a series where we do basic stitches and we're going to make a little basic stitch journal basic seams basic seams I may get really brave and do a buttonhole for you guys we won't do anything we would just do it the one time and I am going to show you the basics of sewing in a zipper I have this little zipper here so that's what this is about we are going to make some faux silk sari mixed media ribbon I have some fabric scraps here and some lace that I got at the Japanese dollar store and I'm going to I'm going to do that where that's going to be another sewing 101 and again we're going to do the belly band video some of these videos are going to be done with a little genome because I want you guys to see how to use a different machine so we're going to be doing basic stitches we're going to make a little journal out of that we're going to be doing mixed media style like ribbon something you can use for fibers even on your traveler's notebook journal covers and we're going to be using the little genome we're going to be sewing paper and things on the little genome and no worries oh Josie I used to do wedding dresses I like sewing with those fancy fabrics I just don't like the brides the brides make me want to smack them so I figured that wasn't good for a bridal team just to want to smack her customers alright that's it for right now everybody I'm going to take a break and have proper lunch something besides a protein bar and yeah brides illa right yeah not so much yeah we call them brides from hell so little known secret I also used to be a fabric seam fabric cutter and seamstress for Chuck E cheese those of you in the United States who know who Chuck E cheese is the pizza parlor I worked at the factory where we made the robotic characters and yeah I still don't like fake fur I like the sewing part Josie if I could just be in the back room doing the sewing part and not have to talk to the brides and today we're drinking this Arrowhead sparkling lemon water because I'm into lemon water right now and I didn't feel like making any alright that's it everybody don't forget the most important thing you know what that is right a couple of some things so like share and subscribe if you aren't already don't forget to have fun and break the rules with your art because that's what it's all about we're mixed media artists and there are no rules for us and go out and do something nice for yourself because you know you deserve it and I know you deserve it yeah alright that's it for right now I am going to have a little break and then I'm going to get some more of these things filmed I know right I haven't been to Chuck E cheese since I stopped working there it was a lot more than 25 years ago that's all I can say I think I was there once a very long time ago when a friend of ours had like their kid had a birthday party there that was a long time ago alright that's it for now show your machine some love if you've got one if you don't maybe you want to think about picking up an inexpensive one my little genome I bought it on sale I think it was a regular retail about 65 but I think I paid between 45 and 54 I don't remember exactly much in the grand scheme of things this one was a lot of really expensive it's a Faf 1546 you can get them used sometimes for a decent price but they're not super cheap so if you're going to just practice and play go pick up something pick a budget and then go to Walmart Kmart Target and pick up an inexpensive machine if you have a sewing and fabric store see what they have if you're going to sew paper and stuff on it I wouldn't spend a ton of money because the paper is really bad for the machine alright that's it everybody talk to you later