The Camera Pouch.

[agoodwinsmith]

Here's what I've been sewing:

Two photos of the camera pouch:






In the first photo you see that it has a pocket on the side for the accommodation of memory sticks.  On the other side is an identical pocket for the spare charged battery.  In the second photo you see that I have lined it with microfiber, to protect the viewing screen,  The pockets are made of the microfiber fabric.  The exterior fabric is a nylon waterproof fabric.  There is quiliting batting between the exterior fabric and the interior lining.

The purpose of this is so that I can carry the digital camera in my purse (over the should bandalero style) without it being crushed and mutilated by the other occupants of my purse (I carry a lot of stuff, okay?  When you travel by bus, your purse is your trunk.).  I'm very happy with how this turned out but I still hate sewing.  If I could have bought what I wanted, I would have.  This thing cost me an hour of shopping, $50 in fabric zippers thread and batting, and six hours of sewing time.  It would have been *cheaper* to buy it.

There was much ranting and raving.  There was no flinging things down in disgust but only because they wouldn't have smashed worth a darn.

Comments

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

It looks great! My camera presently rides around in an old leather case from an older camera. This works fine for now, since I don't have any extra memory cards or batteries right now. But if/when I get some I might just steal your idea :o)

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! If I make another, I would make it using two sides instead of a continuous piece - putting in the top zipper was a little tricky. I'm very happy with the microfiber as lining.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

That looks splendid!

Sewing

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

I like to sew, but you're right, this was much too costly in materials and time.

I need to sew bags for wheelchair legs (metal, not human) and the wheelchair seat (which has big sharp hooks on two of the four sides) and I am dREADING it. Gotta get my dearest savant_da_rat to haul the sewing machine out, and I dread that, too.

Re: Sewing

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I am very pleased with the bag - it turned how how I imagined. Which is why I continue to sew on occasion - you really get what you really want - but it makes me crazy. I know it makes me crazy, and that knowledge does not stop me from displaying the crazy. Good luck with your projects.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

It looks really neat, and I am impressed with the clever idea of lining it with microfibre cloth (although the second picture looks a bit vilgar, and had given that impression much stronger had the microfibre been dark pink).

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

looks a bit vilgar

Hm. Substitute the obvious 'i' with an 'u', of course.

Oh, and my compliments on the pun (intentional?) of worth a darn. Personally, I'd have used "broken" rather than "smashed", to make the pun more obvious, but "smashing" does sum up the reason for flinging, had some occured.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Vilgar, vulgar, s'okay. I went to a place that has great deals, but you get what you get. My first choice for the exterior colour was rabid florescent fucia pink, but I really liked the feel of the beige microfiber. I tried the beige with forest green, actually forest ranger uniform green, and - no.

Darn and smashed. The thing about darn is that things have to be worn and abraded to be darned, which just about describes my fingers after trying to insert pins through eighteen layers of fabric, which feeling is what lead me to wanting to smash things enthusiastically.