I’ve made this large tote bag for a present for my friend Cathy who procured me metres of the stuff on ebay for virtually nothing. It’s a really nice Designer’s Guild linen and I lined it with an old plain linen IKEA curtain. It came together quite nicely – apart from the handles which I [...]
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Posted in Bags, tagged bag, recycled, upcycled on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cath Kidstonesque bag
Posted in Bags, tagged Accessories, bag, recycle, recycled, recycled bag, refashion, Sewing, upcycled bag on June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m unnaturally pleased with this bag that I whipped up today from a remnant of a housecoat I found in the sewing material bag at Re:create where I’m now teaching some sewing courses. I think it’s got quite a Cath Kidston feel about it. I lined it with another piece of retro fabric and made [...]
Plum silk evening bag
Posted in Bags, tagged bag, recycled bag, silk, upcycled bag on February 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I made this as a thank you to Jess who donated a huge bag of clothes for my refashioning empire. It started life as a lovely silk skirt that she had made on her honeymoon to Thailand. Now she’s still very slim but this skirt is tiny, tiny. It’s dead simple to make. I used [...]
Warm fuzzy bag
Posted in Bags on December 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This bag started life as an old grey woolly jacket that was my Mum’s and a bright pink T-shirt that was my fashion-conscious son’s. I wanted a bag that would hold a paperback, my notebooks – and a few other essentials as well. So I made it the size of a small tote bag. I’m [...]
Bag lady
Posted in Bags on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This little bag started life as a thrifted wool cardigan – I loved it and wore it for a few years but it got ripped and past its prime so I thought I’d reinvent it. I felted it by washing it in a really hot wash. The handles – formed from a strip folded in [...]
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