tea pouches

Welcome to finish it up Friday!

I have a small finish today, but it's a finish nonetheless! Considering this crazy time of year, I'll take it! :)

I made these handy fold-up pouches to give to a few of my friends that enjoy drinking tea. They were a fun little project and I can see several more in my sewing future. It's fun to mix and match different fabric combinations. Picking the fabric takes almost as long as sewing them up. I'm not complaining, though...I love playing with fabric!

The pattern is called Handy Fold-Up Pouch and it comes from the book Stitched Sewing Organizers by Aneela Hoey. It's a beautiful book filled with several practical projects that I would love to make someday.

Have you heard of the hot ruler? I used it when I was making this pouch and it's SO handy. My friend Tara gave me this gadget when I was expressing (complaining?) how hard it is to hem pants or dresses accurately. The ruler is heat resistant, so you measure, fold and press the fabric all in one step. It's SLICK! I've used it for hemming, but also for small projects like this.

This is in no way sponsored by Clover or anyone else, it's just a wonderful tool that might make a good gift for you or for a sewing friend. Or both! :)

Of course this pouch would make a super cute mini sewing kit, too! That's kind of what it was designed for. hahaha! I love that you can clip the wonder clips (another great tool!) on the band. I think I might try adding a snap on the flap and use that as an alternate closure. Wouldn't that be cute?

Alright! That's it for me today! I hope you have a finish that you can share. (I know that it's so hard this time of year, because there is a lot of secret sewing going on!) Please link up, and thanks, as always, for joining me for finish it up Friday! Have a great weekend!

finish it up Friday, 12/15/17

1.	Alex Quilt	50.	My Pillow - Elm Street Quilts
2.	Johnna @ Yellow Bird Stitches	51.	Kitty Wilkin | Night Quilter
3.	Bambi	52.	Thrift Shop Commando - Cowboy Christmas Quilt
4.	Towa Gauge @ From My Carolina Home	53.	Cathy Tomm Cherry Quilt
5.	Em's Scrapbag	54.	Pack Rat With A Plan
6.	unbeehaved - Free Pattern Friday	55.	Vanuatu Turtle Quilt Top Fiinished
7.	Brooke@SillyMamaQuilts	56.	Beary Colorful BOM 2018
8.	Creatin' in the Sticks - new block new quilt	57.	Frankie Baldwin
9.	Modern Freefall Quilt Pink Doxies	58.	tubakk - Norway
10.	Quilting is more fun than Housework	59.	Sandra @ mmm! quilts
11.	Fragmental @ Savor Every Stitch	60.	Fabric Charm Coasters
12.	Chris @ The Art of Making Blog	61.	Cortney @ Knit 1, Make 2
13.	La Vida en Patchwork -Block 7 Seaside Town Quilt	62.	Gretchen @ Snug Harbor Quilts
14.	Slice of Pi Quilts: Paying It Forward	63.	Sapphire's Stitching Stanza
15.	Baby Quilt Finish	64.	charlotte@GrammieQ's
16.	KatyQuilts	65.	The Inside Stori
17.	Kat & Cat Quilts	66.	Let's Panel
18.	Roseanne @ Home Sewn By Us	67.	Christmas Tree Applique Drawstring Bag Tutorial
19.	Slice of Pi Quilts: A Palette Cleanser	68.	Dogs in Sweaters Quilt: Quilting is in my Blood
20.	viridian61	69.	Snowcatcher
21.	Erica @ Kitchen Table Quilting	70.	Yanicka Hachez
22.	Busy Hands Quilts	71.	Sarah @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict
23.	The Flemings Nine	72.	Project Linus quilt - the lilac cat
24.	Tula Pink Butterfly Top @ Dresden Lane Designs	73.	Blue diamonds quilt
25.	K Sorensen Almost Crazy Quilts	74.	Anja @ Anja Quilts
26.	something rosemade	75.	Another Baby Quilt @ LoGoQuilts
27.	Karen	76.	Suzy Webster
28.	Wendy’s Quilts and More	77.	Handquilting finished!
29.	Puple Haze Socks	78.	Sarah
30.	Alison @ LBQ - Penguin Table Runner	79.	Luna Lovequilts : Improv' triangles quilt
31.	Ruth @Stitching Impressions	80.	Lavender Turnovers
32.	Animal House + A Giveaway	81.	Carolyn
33.	Lovely Little Christmas Trees	82.	Terri Faust Quilts
34.	Izzy @ Dizzy Quilts	83.	Kay Sorensen Santa's List quilt
35.	TUTORIAL quick and easy Log Cabin	84.	maggie fellow
36.	Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl	85.	Janice@singreadsew
37.	Andrea @ 3rd Story Workshop	86.	Kay Sorensen Changing Up My Quilts
38.	DonnaleeQ	87.	Treadlestitches Feathered Star
39.	Smiles from Kate	88.	Q-Bits - A little Christmas project
40.	Gail at the Cozy Quilter	89.	Bernie @ Needle and Foot
41.	Cindy@liveacolorfullife	90.	2018 Quilt Along Link Up
42.	Twinchie Christmas	91.	beth@lovelaughquilt
43.	Jess @ Quilty Habit	92.	Laura
44.	Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing	93.	White & Gold Prairie Point Star w/ribbon flower
45.	A Quilter's Road Trip	94.	The Joyful Quilter
46.	❀ Plum Blossom Quilting ❀	95.	Stacey @SLOstudio - Polarity queen size
47.	Judy B- Arithmetic Baby Quilt	96.	Jasmine @ Quilt Kisses 1
48.	Quilting Gail	97.	Jasmine @ Quilt Kisses
49.	Brenda @ scrapsandstrings

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