sewing fool

29 July 2007

Dopp kits


I made a set of dopp kits, or cosmetics bags, as going away on vacation gifts for a friend and his daughter. (The daddy got a second as a birthday present.) I used a commercial pattern, Butterick 6236 (items: large accessory bag and small accessory bag), and mostly followed the directions as written, but added pull tabs at the ends of the zippers, second side loops, piping at the zipper section seams, and chose to use grosgrain ribbon instead of nylon webbing for the loops and tabs. The fabrics, a striped denim (masculine!) and a plain denim (to set off the daughter's favorite color, pink), were purchased at, um, that great shop whose name I can't remember. Zippers, piping and ribbon from Daytona Trimmings. Black iron-on interfacing, to give the denim more support, from NY Elegant Fabrics.