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.

Because I’m inexperienced (read: slight idiot), I chose my fabrics without any consideration into how hard they would be to work with. Cobalt coloured velvet is pretty okay to sew, but fuck satin, it looks so damn good as the bags lining but it was so hard to work with since it kept slipping and pulling everywhere, never again. The tutorial I followed can be found here, although I didn’t do any of the embroidering (I definitely want to get into embroidery some day, but the startup cost is a little too much for me at the moment). It is a wonderful tutorial and I highly recommend it, especially if you choose sensible fabrics!

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any progress photos of the dice bag since I was so focused on getting it done! But here are several photos of the finished piece, along with my shiny new dice.

Dice bag photos.

It looks really nice in the photos! The round bottom was sewn on perfectly (if I do say so myself), but the inside is pretty horrific if you look closely, lots of terrible seams and pulled satin. The top is also pretty wonky and the parts that hold the cord in are misaligned (and the stitching is all over the place) but hey, for my second project ever (on totally the wrong choice of fabric), it’s pretty good! It will forever hold my new dice.

Bonus round: I originally bought some blue and gold cord (instead of the yellow faux suede cord you see above), but turns out I should really pay closer attention to the thickness of the cord I was buying…

Oops, wrong cord, way too thick.

So, yeah, here is your reminder to check things like that! No worries though, I’m sure I’ll find a use for it, maybe around the edge of a pillow or something. Stay tuned for my next blog post where I’ll be showing off my first ever stuffed toy (or, as I like to call it, plushie) and the story behind it (it’s a pretty good story, honest).

Projects completed: 2.

Thanks for getting this far, love Rhiba.

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