Fabric Mail Sorter

Grandma had the girls sleep over Thursday and Friday nights, so I took the opportunity to make this fabric mail sorter. I initially saw it on the Craft: blog, and got pretty excited about it. I always have a hundred different school papers for Nora and kept meaning to find a better way of organizing them. I had been sticking them to the fridge with magnets and knew it was only a matter of time before I lost something important. This mail sorter was clearly my answer. I was already planning to make it when I saw that it was one of the two February project options for Finny and Donk's Craft: Along. Sweet!

I followed this tutorial, which was incredibly well written and very easy to follow. I am the first to admit that my sewing skills are way less than great, but I still managed to make this with minimal swearing and only one date with the seam ripper. And I only burned myself once on the iron, which is a small miracle.

Here is a close-up of one of the pockets.

The whole unit. I love the fabric, but now that it is finished and hanging on the wall, I am not sure how I feel about it. It is really wild, and I can't decide if it is too- Great Grandma. Like, maybe I should have used the binding fabric as the main, and the wild floral business as the binding. Too late now! The thing is, I NEVER choose neutrals. My parka is lime green, my hat is wild, my purse is crazy... For some reason, I am drawn to crazy patterns. So probably I should just zip it and smile. And then go sort Nora's school stuff. I might make another, less wild one as a gift. It was that simple!