another Faeries' Oracle bag story...
I was going through my fabric stash yesterday and ran across a scrap of brown velvet I forgot I had. Immediately the Faeries perked up their ears from my bedside table, where they were lying wrapped in my favorite black, blue, and purple silk scarf... a scarf they confiscated from me a year ago.
"That brown velvet is ours!" they said. "It's about time we had a proper bag!" Never mind that they wanted the silk scarf to begin with. So today I got out my sewing machine and stitched them a soft little bag. It's lined with a piece of black silk/linen blend fabric cut from a torn pair of trousers. I used
these instructions which make a nice lined bag with no raw edges showing. The Faeries seem very happy with their new bag, and I got my scarf back.
While I was sewing, I did a quick spread, and kept the cards out till the bag was done:
see here (the color is off a bit since I took this indoors). Himself said the color of the velvet was perfect. The Pook snickered and snarled the bobbin thread. Faery Godmother said, "Bless you, child... you're sweet to think of us." Solus just beamed.