Finished Or Not Friday: Another Pop-Up Bucket!

 Hello August!  Just here to report a quickie along with everyone at Quilty Girl Alycia's for this week's "Finished Or Not Friday"!

Last year I made one of of the Fat Quarter Gypsy - Sew Organized Design "Stacking Pop-up" buckets to use as a sewing station garbage can when I visit my MIL for a mini quilting retreat.  That one was coordinated to go with the bag and supplies I use if I take my Juki sewing machine with me.  

The outside fabric is actually a recycled sheet!

The Juki travel set-up.

At that time I also had planned to make another one for my Featherweight's travel sewing kit.  As I said on the last post about my "Catch-All Cuties" sewing tools totes,  I like to have a separate set of tools for each of my sewing set-ups.  I purchased fabrics to go with the black, red and white color scheme of all things Featherweight.

I had purchased the red lining fabric for it when I Shop Hopped with my MIL back in October.  I wound up ordering the black and white exterior fabric when I got back home.  That happened because I decided that the fabric I had purchased for that on the Shop Hop would go better with a panel I already had in stash to make a future holiday quilt.

However, before I could get that one made up, I actually made another one!  On the July 4th holiday weekend, my husband and I went on a camping trip to Letchworth State Park.  Since this was a short trip, we used our small camp set-up:

On our last trip with this same kit over the Memorial Day weekend, one thing we realized was that we needed a small garbage can for our tent.  We've tied plastic bags to the little table we use inside the tent but really wanted something a little more structured.   Fortunately, when Joann's had gone out of business this year I had picked up some fabrics because I loved the bright colors of one and the camping theme of both:

At the time, I had thought I might use them to make a new roll up kitchen utensil storage pouch for my DH.  When I saw we needed the can and since I had made one of these Pop-ups before, I decided I'd use some of it for that instead!  For the sewing station cans, I had used a "Large" pop-up, this time around  I made a smaller "Medium" sized one:

And hard at work in our tent!

These Pop-ups also come in an even larger "Extra-Large" size as well as a "Small" and "Mini" size. They are easier to make than they look and full instructions for all the sizes are in the  "Stacking Pop-up" pattern which is sold seperately from the wire frames.

You only have to cut out six pieces to make it:  one fabric side piece out of each fabric used for the outside and inside, interfacing (the same size) for both of those and circles for the bottom out of both the outside and inside fabrics (a template for that is provided with the wire frames).  

If you are going to secure the folded up Pop-up with ties, you cut two additional fabric strips to make those but you can also use a strip of elastic for that.  Note that I used a twill tape printed like a ruler for my first large one and I recycled an elastic headband from a broken headlamp for my camping version.  

With the camping one done, I figured I'd end a busy July finally making up the second big one for the Featherweight kit.

All finished, open and closed!

This completes my set of DIY travel accessories for my Featherweight!

If you want to make things like this for your Featherweight, check out the making of my tote bag, foot controller drawstring bag and extension bed cover here (all using Jeni Baker's Sew Portable Travel Set design) and the Catch-All Cutie I made for this set here.

Want to know what else everyone is making to start off this new month?  Well then head on over to Quilty Girl Alycia's for some "Finished Or Not Friday" reports!