I came back from the sewing retreat in July wanting to make a lot of bags and pouches. Last but not least because my skills have been expanding and my sewing room and organisation has become more chaotic as a result, instead of being less so because I have more sewing skills and can make myself some items to help with that.

After looking at a lot of patterns and ideas for hand sewing thread organisation, I decided to make the Booklet Pouch by Aneela Hoey. The fabric I chose for the project came out of an Angela Walters old fabric collection, called Inked Rainbow, I purchased this bundle and a few others from her at the beginning of my free motion quilting journey, when I was getting her panels to practice free motion quilting because I was too scared to use my own pieced tops.

And even though I am quite scared of zippers, I am really pleased with the result:

I made this bag slightly wider so it could hold a couple more bobbins than the small one showed in the pattern pictures, and it almost broke my brain (because what the pattern calles width and length has nothing to do with the finished pouch and everything to do with the piece of fabric you are cutting). The other thing I had to do, because I am using a directional fabric, was make the outer fabric read properly on both sides of the bag.

Now that I have been using it for a bit I cannot be happier, I would totally make it again if I had to keep organising this size of thread bobbin for other purposes or because my collection grows too big:

It took me a weekend to get this bag done, but I am sure that if I hadn't been worrying about fabric positioning and altering the pattern width-wise I could have finished it in a day.