Christmas is over. Nice to have them. Nice to stay for a little time with loved ones. Nice to talk. Nice to do nothing. And nice to have time to sew something new.

During free days I stayed couple of hours with her. My sewing machine. I cannot call her it, because, sometimes I suspect it, her indeed, from being living creature. I cannot count how many times she made me angry when I was in a sewing flow and she started having fun with stich and I had to start making my fabric piece over.

Besides her wicked temper, we are still good friends, sometimes very close to soul mates as much as it is possible for human being and for a machine. Luckily, I did not study sewing in school, I guess if so, by this time we would hate each other and I would never sew in my free time. Our relationship started few years ago, when I was already adult. When you are adult, you decide who is gonna be your friend. Big advantage of an adult. And I chose her. And she did not care.

We really enjoyed these few christmas moments together. We tried new stitch styles, we tried to sew materials which are little harder. To be concrete, we got on with leather.  Together with lambskin leather we improved a design of my handmade drawstring self-designed bag VANDROVKA. Half of a bag is made of that smooth leather, so if it rains, strong natural material protect all staff inside.

You cannot create something nice and cute withou heart, so I decided to put  a little heart on vandrovka. Goog idea. And of course, my sewing machine was happy to be able to sew it on. It worked, even though I was afraid wheter the sewing needle will survive. But she did.

Vandrovka was finished and as it had been planned, weather played the game with us. It started snowing outside the window, so I left my machine, took the camera and run into the park to take few pistures of my handmade drawstring bag named Vandorvka, the bag for each and every wanderer. That one with many stamps in passport and also for the other one without passport, but stamp in heart.

These are the photos we have made. Also for my sewing machine. When you spent so much time with her, it would be unfair not to take a time and photograph nice work she contributed to. I love her. My sewing machine. My machanical friend, who have learned me a lot.

If you like the bag, let me know, I will make another and other.

Photographs were made by my husband Lukáš after giving some basic instuctions. 🙂

Have a nice time!

Ľuba