Tomorrow, my wife will be tricked lovingly guided into her first sewing project: ita bag pin inserts.
We made her pattern pieces and cut out everything tonight. Tomorrow she's ironing on an unholy amount of heavy interfacing and, uh... Assembling everything with the overlocker. Because why not start your sewing journey with the angriest machine in the home sewist arsenal?
Reddit, as it turns out, is rife with no sew tutorials for these doohickeys. Like, to the point of even my no-sew-loving other half wondering what childhood incident scarred so many people that they can't bear the thought of a sewing needle or machine. But those tutorials require a bunch of materials we do not have (or can't clean once assembled), and also have a glue gun that you would use if there was literally any other option. (Note to self: get better glue gun).
And she wants to be done quickly, with as little additional expenses as possible. And I had some fabric and overlocker thread in my stash that matches her bag, as well as a bunch of interfacing I've not needed as much as I thought.
The only worry is that the big panel will not be stiff enough, but theoretically we can just sandwich in a third piece of fabric with more interfacing on either side.
