This is a love letter to my new Singer Tradition, after selling my Sigma 2000 and a 1970s Singer. A small custom box pouch fitting the removable accessory drawer in the free arm so when I start sewing, I pull it out to have accessories together, instead of scattering bits on my table.
With white and red poplin, white woven interfacing, a white zipper, and a macram cord pull with 3 handmade fimo beads. As the drawer is small (14x5’5x4cm.), it had to be compact and well-structured to sit perfectly.
A wordplay design is the heart of the piece. I began with doodles in Krita, a set of sewing motifs vectorized in Illustrator, where I composed the design and built motif brushes. The Spanish expression “Coser y cantar” (Sing and Sew) makes a play with the brand name and uses the Mama font. The “y” is a treble clef as ampersand. A thread passes through a needle, runs across button holes, goes through an imminent snip under “coser”, tangles under the treble clef into a heart, and flows into a wave with a quaver and semiquaver under “cantar” that reads like a musical sewing score. I debated red outside and white inside, but following the machine’s colours the exterior is the interfacing (prettier than the white poplin after pressing) with red HTV and the red poplin is a warm lining that hides stains better.
Sewing a so tiny pouch with hidden seams was fiddly. There was almost no margin, so I had to press HTV while partly sewn. I missed having a Loklik Mini Press for precise mid-assembly press. One pouch needed rework, the other I rescued by adding a thimble doodle to balance an off-center print, so it looks intentional. Red poplin frayed more than expected.
I gifted one pouch to my mother, my sewing teacher that loved it! It now lives both on my bench and in her corner, and that feels meaningful.
It wasn´t exactly sew and sing but with the Singer and my Crafter the crafting felt that way. The pouch does exactly what I wanted, neat and poetic, and that is the perfect finish.
This is absolutely beautiful, 
