Mix Tape

OK, so it's a CD, not a tape. But even my dedication to CDs (and refusal to download music) feels pretty old school these days. As much as I despise clutter, I do like objects. I want to read a newspaper that I can hold and rustle in my hands; enjoy books with heft and cover art that I can highlight and write notations in the margins; and I like my music recorded on actual, physical objects.

I recently made a CD for a friend and needed a way to contain it. I planned to make and decorate a paper envelope, but the stack of fabric scraps beckoned from its place on the floor. It occurred to me that a fabric envelope would not only be easier and faster to make than a paper one, but that the faster I finished the project the more likely I'd be to actually get it into the mail.

Edges left raw with a double seam of tiny stitches and a simple ribbon closure. Fast, easy, pretty, satisfying, and in the mail.