Make a Fabric Luggage Handle Wrap - Tutorial Tuesday

"I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married."
~Kevin Bacon

I get that. We have a container of things in the closet, just ready to go. Who knows where and who knows when, but when the feeling strikes we just pick up and go.

And now we pick up and go with a new luggage handle wrap.

For this project you will need:

• Fabric
• Piece of batting
• Piece of Velcro® 
• Sewing machine
• Matching thread
• Iron
• Rotary cutter, cutting ruler, cutting mat or scissors
• Template from the pattern here

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Now available in my Etsy store as a digital download with the written directions, step-by-step photos, printable template, and link to the tutorial video. Click to find out more!

Looking for more travel accessory ideas? Check out these projects!

Otherwise, watch the tutorial to make your own homemade fabric luggage handle wrap here:

Sunday Sew-In

Since it's a Sunday Sew-In and I get lots of questions about what’s in my sewing room, I decided to give you a look at some of the ways I've organized my supplies. I move furniture and reorganize a lot so my set-up changes a lot.

I love how my fabric looks in these wooden ClosetMaid stackable units.

More fabric in more wooden ClosetMaid stackable units.

Even more fabric in some Martha Stewart china hutches.

Smaller objects organized in plastic storage drawers. 

Buttons get their own plastic storage. 

Thread and other sewing supplies organized in other plastic storage drawer units.

And some other general things:
My sewing machine is in the corner by the window. The table is really a door from the closet. My ironing board is to the right of the machine and is made from a piece of plywood covered with cotton batting and fabric. Yeah, my bulletin board needs some cleaning up.

On another wall of the room is one of the closets with no doors (because they are the sewing table). I keep patterns in the drawers, lace and binding and rick rack in ArtBin plastic storage containers and yarn up above, and have my 30 yard roll of cotton batting hanging on the closet rod above the Ikea dresser I got off Craigslist.

Like I said, the set-up changes a lot. Who know what next year will look like?

Cruise Ship Dining

It's Cruise Ship Saturday! Today we're talking about dining.

You will most likely not go hungry on a cruise ship. Many choices for meals and snacks can be found any time of day and night. Some lines charge for room service but otherwise most dining choices, other than specialty dining, are included in the price of the cruise.

The multiple options provide different levels of dining experiences.

If you want casual, the buffet is a good choice. There are also additional á la carte eateries onboard.

Free pastries at breakfast. Yum.

Free pizza. Double yum!

If you want to be pampered, the traditional dining room is a good choice. If you haven’t experienced dining with a multi-course meal in an upscale restaurant a cruise ship is the place to do it.

Pheasant, anyone? It's free.

Or perhaps escargot? Yep, free.

If you want to be pampered more, try specialty dining.

Now that's what you call a steak. Yay for specialty dining.

If you want to eat in your cabin, use room service. You can also pick up something from the buffet or an á la carte eatery and bring it back to your cabin. That way you won't miss the sunset for sure.

Sunsets at sea are spectacular, especially in the Caribbean and Hawaii.

Friday 15

An easy one.
Four items sold on eBay. I've just about run out of things to sell so I'm shutting it down until summer.

Lots of sewing room clean out, though:
Four skeins of yarn
One bag of chalkboard hearts
One box of chalk
One mini whiteboard stand
One X-Acto knife set
One mesh laundry bag
One stack of about 100 comic book boards (from my fabric wrapping)
One Hawaiian shirt (I was going to use it as a pattern for a shirt for hubby but decided not to)

An easy peasy 15.