After finishing my ogre Fiona dress (see this post for hilarious pictures), I didn’t actually pick up my needle again until mid January. Inspiration struck after I was gifted some beautiful cobalt and gold DnD dice for Christmas (as well as the players handbook, hype!), and I decided I was going to make a matching dice bag for my new possesions.
Like most things I do, my journey to learn to sew started because I had an overwhelming urge to do something silly. Halloween, that magical time of year, was approaching and my decision to be Fiona from Shrek (based solely on the fact that both of us have ginger hair) was proving a difficult one. Turns out you can’t really buy adult sized Fiona costumes in England, but I did have one saving grace: a sewing machine! My partner inherited a beautiful Singer 99K a year or two ago, and since then, it had only been used to mend our curtains.