I don't really need another cloth bag but I've had this rather groovy vintage canvas fabric knocking around for a-g-e-s in the stash. It was a charity shop find many moons ago and I had always intended to make it into a bag. This afternoon I had a spare 30 minutes and thought why not get the sewing machine out and get on with it.
It's my usual very simple boxed-corner style bag - though the sturdy canvas-type fabric does make it look a lot more 'shaped' than my normal 'floppy fabric' bags.
Lined with some abstract blue spot material (which has also been knocking around in the stash for years.)
With the handles made from some charity shop webbing (again, been meaning to make bag handles from this for a l-o-n-g time.) All in all, it took me probably less than 30 minutes to put it all together. Naturally, having been made by me, it's not perfect and it would have improved the stitching immensely if I'd not been too lazy to change the rather blunt needle in the sewing machine. I guess it's even blunter now after having to cope with canvas and thickish webbing!
I'm hoping if the rain holds off this weekend I can use my new bag to 1) go to a local village fete tomorrow afternoon and 2) actually get to a car boot sale! It's the middle of June and this will only be my fourth boot sale since March - tsk, that's truly shocking!!!!
That's so cool..!
Posted by: Custom Essay Writing | 06/27/2012 at 02:22 PM