Squeezing Under the Wire

• http://mantuadiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/pockets.html
• http://www.coletterie.com/tutorials-tips-tricks/continuous-bias-tape-tutorial
• Another source for pockets via American Duchess

Somehow, deadlines always help in getting stuff done. The end of the year and being able to use the completed: 2012 tag on this project since all I had left was little stuff turned out to be just enough. I freehanded my initials and the year after cutting the slit down the middle. It wasn't the most efficient way of doing them, but I didn't know how much to allow for binding the slit so they had to be added afterward.

I'd say it's about 88% hand-work; the bias tape is sewn together and the inside of the seams are done by machine.