***I'm submitting this as an entry in the Day of the Dead Contest being held by :icondelectable-decadence.

It's also available for sale (in a limited run of 8 bags) at etsy [link]!


You might think the title of this piece is a reference to the nifty skulls pattern on the fabric I found in the remnant bin. But no, it's all about the process of making it. First I found I apparently have no black thread in the house---I decided gray would work fine. Then I realized I'd bought the wrong type of bobbin for my machine; luckily I still had two empty ones from my starter pack. Next the upper thread on my machine kept snagging when I tried to pull the lower thread up. I took things apart twice to get that fixed, which involved lots of things falling on the ground and getting lost on the carpet, and plenty of me swearing.

But when everything was working, it took me less than fifteen minutes each to make three of these.

Once I have my etsy shop up, these will make great party favor bags, dice bags, jewelry bags, gift bags, etc.!

Oh, wait, I almost forgot. In addition to all of the above, it had been long enough since I'd used this machine that I wanted to refresh my memory on threading everything. But I couldn't find the manual ANYWHERE. So after about 20 minutes of fruitless searching (involving one arachnid encounter), I ended up downloading the thing off the internet. Thank goodness for computers.