Packaging: Pt. 2

Well I worked on this not quite as collaboratively as I would have hoped. My sister works 6 days a week, so for her to come home and help me was kind of a task. Managing my 16 month old niece is no easy task either. Luckily, it's looking pretty good. We are adding snaps and a loop to the sleeve instead of gromets and drawstrings. It's less bulky and looks better, plus for some strange reason my sister has the snap presser thing. But it was definitely a nice idea I got from critique, to try to make my sleeve portable.

We began as mentioned before, with the chipboard around the map idea, which did not work. Cutting the pieces, spacing them out correctly, then sewing and conversing, this was a nightly process that happened around 2 or 3 in the morning for several days straight. I did not go in several different design ideas, or become inspired by anything much besides Hudson Trail Outfitters. A map sleeve is a map sleeve, and I imagined the person purchasing it would want something basic. So in turn, my design process went from sketches to sewing pretty directly.

There was some confusion as to whether I did any sewing. I did some but not all of it. Maybe my blatant honesty is going to bite me back in terms of the grade I get, but I assure everyone it's been bugging me, and I don't intend on being in this position again, regardless of the effort that I felt was made. If there's one thing I've learned from this project, it's to learn how to sew almost anything and completely. Currently, I've been an avid watcher of Project Runway and the idea of custom making my own clothes, pillows, bags, anything, is an exciting one.
Looking forward!