At last, a sunny Sunday morning, which meant that, finally, there was a car boot sale to go to. As I hoped, this week's car boot was pretty large - I'm sure there were lots of sellers who had been waiting for a dry Sunday as impatiently as I had been. Funnily enough, I didn't buy any more than usual but I did get some really nice vintage trimmings.
Which included lots and lots of ric rac in various colours and lengths, and an unopened reel of very pretty floral ribbon / trim. I also got these two large (36 yards) cards of vintage ric rac.
The brown one still has the original wrapping on it. This was from the first stall I visited at the car boot, and they had a box load of bits of lace and trimmings etc. These two cards of ric rac were in a bag with some oddments of wool and, very stupidly, I thought I would leave going through the trim properly until I'd looked round a bit more. Needless to say, I went back a while later and the whole box of trim had gone!!!! What a numbskull, I don't know why I didn't just grab the lot when I saw it, after all the two cards of ric rac were only 10p each, so it wasn't as if the prices were high!! I really should keep the old adage 'he who hesitates is lost' in the forefront of my mind when I'm at car boot sales.
On Saturday afternoon I made up a simplified version of this Amy Butler bag.
Simplified in that I didn't use interfacing, didn't add any pockets, and omitted the mobile phone holder. This is what my version looks like.
And here it is kindly being modelled by P.
The material is from a huge pair of children's curtains which I bought in a charity shop in Rayleigh in the new year. I really love the cheerful animals and the bright primary colours. The lining is a red and white cotton material with rabbits on it from a thrifted Ikea duvet cover.
I was really pleased how this bag turned out and it was very quick to make up too. I'm going to be using this bag next week when I head off to visit my family in the West Country for a week. It's pretty roomy and should be easy to carry around with the lovely wide shoulder strap. Just what I need as I never seem to travel light!!
Great finds Elizabeth! Aren't we daft sometimes, I often hesitate over something at a boot sale(because it's more than £1 usually!) and then kick myself for not grabbing a complete bargain. My Mantra now is "if I bought it in Primark I'd pay more than that" or "less then the cost of a happy meal". That normally helps me make up my mind :)
Oh wasn't it good to get to the boot sales, I was missing them sooo much.
Gill x
Posted by: Gill | 07/09/2007 at 05:49 PM
hello - thanks for calling by the blog - means i can come and visit another lovely blogger - and what a fantastic haul from the boot sale - great bag too - I think I'd like to try that one - I can't do 'simple' though - I would use most of those trimmings on just one bag - I need to learn that 'less is more'!!!
Posted by: katie | 07/10/2007 at 11:05 AM