Today Andy starts rehearsals for a Very Large Show. He's directing
Leonard Bernstein's Mass for the Adelaide Festival and I'm so proud of him. It's such a fantastic opportunity and he's already been working very hard on it for quite some time. Our whole family is becoming very familiar with the music, which fortunately is fabulous and bears repeat listening!
The score is enormous. To hold his necessarily large collection of highlighter pens, sticky notes and other working paraphernalia, Andy asked me to make him a pencil case. I jumped at the opportunity to use a couple of beautiful fabrics from the stash... and send a little piece of handmade love along for the ride.
The outside is a heavy almost hessian-like fabric... linen I suppose? I bought it on eBay a while back and it has no selvedge or other clues. I love it and it was definitely waiting to become a bag-ish thing of some sort.
On the inside is some Liberty Tana Lawn, with hundreds of ornate mushrooms. Another one from my (fortunately brief) eBay fabric purchasing phase.
The only zip I had was a salvaged black one but it was in good shape and I think it looks fine. I hope his new pencil case brings Andy extra good vibes for his first day of rehearsal.
If you are in Adelaide and interested in seeing the show, I believe it is selling quickly. And
this recording of the music is well worth getting to know.
- Jane x
That linen fabric is adorable. So lovely that your husband requested your hand made case. Very sweet. Cx
ReplyDeleteThanks, yeah and there was probably a bit of making me feel all warm and fuzzy about all the impending after-hours rehearsals and inevitable Festival late nights while I'm home with the kids ;P
DeleteThe outside fabric is really very groovy. That mushroom liberty fabric has always been a bit of a favourite if mine - so colourful and whimsical. SOunds like you'll have to be super-organised and get those kids into bed early so you can have lots of 'quiet time' during your evenings alone.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the Liberty marvellous? I've had about half a metre of it for ages but never come up with the right thing to do with it before now, it's so 'busy' and doesn't seem to match anything. And yes, I see a few quiet sewing evenings coming up :)
DeleteYay for Andy! And what a gorgeous little pencil case! I love those fabrics!
ReplyDeleteWow, Jane - that's fantastic! I concur with getting the kids to bed early - perfect sewing opportunity coming up :-)
ReplyDeleteSuper hip pencil case!! Congrats to Andy and good luck to you and the kiddos!
ReplyDeleteFabulous linen! Hope the rehearsals are going well. Bethx
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