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| My good friend Frankie made me this lovely little bag for my ipod. Its lovely, but too small for my large earphones, and then I found this funny little bag in my scrap box, its a washing machine bag for soap tablets. |
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| I always keep those tiny strips and shards of fabric, I am sure they will be use full for something, I had thought of putting them into hand made paper. |
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| With a large bodkin[wool needle would do] I have threaded the strips through the mesh, leaving at least an inch sticking out at both ends., it didn't take long and I soon had the entire bag threaded with strips and some ribbons. |
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| I took out the white drawstring and replaced it with a multicoloured chord. |
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| I love the bag, but I dont think the fabric strips are secure, you could easily catch a strip on the inside, and it would come out. |
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| So I measured the bag, and cut a rectangle of cheerfull fabric, and stitched up the sides. |
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| I turned the bag through, so that the nice side was inside and ironed a sheet of bondaweb to both sides of the outside. |
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| Then I turned the lining inside out, so that the bonded side was inside. |
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| Then I popped the inside out mesh bag inside the inside out liner, this sounds confusing, look at the photos. |
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| Then I folded the top edge of the liner under, to but up to the drawstring |
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| Then I ironed the liner carefully, so that the two layers bonded together. |
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| finally,I put a running stitch around the top edge, so that there wouldnt be any unplanned flapping. |
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| Not being able to leave anything alone, I finished off with a bit of stitching on some of the smoother areas and then added a few tiny little buttons. |
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| And there we are, a nice little raggedy bag for my little sliver of purple loveliness. |
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| If I wanted to make a similar but differant sized bag, you can buy this nylon mesh, its a type of net curtaining, in some large curtain making supply shops in 5 differant colours for only two squid a metre, maybe next time I might 1. make a book cover 2. use longer strips so that I have some flat areas to stitch into. 3. use ribbons, cords, and knitting wool for extra texture. 4 .make a handbag, or a cushion. 6. add beads. If you liked this, please tell me, thanks, byeee. |
