Tea and cactus lover (#cupoftea), sometimes red head and occasionally blogging young woman from Finland.
I have now sewed the dress I was talking about in my previous entry. I was going to do all sort of fancy stuff with it but in the end I decided to go with the original instructions. I only added the belt. In pictures it looks bit wonky… but I think it’s better on me. :) It’s very basic and simply pattern but very nice to wear on hot summer days.
Near Eastern I happened to see green placemats made of felt, which cost only 0.50€/piece. Obviously I bought them. I was actually going to use them under keyboard and screen, but I thought I could make a bag too. Two placemats 1€, black embroider thread 0.40€ and button from mum. :P Material isn’t necessarily the best one because it does get bit fuzzy. :/
In the middle of embroidering.
I cut two...
Few weeks a go I was in kitchen doing something, when it came in my mind that I could make bag of the tablecloth (made of oilcloth) which I had bought from Hemtext about year ago – half price, 10 € I think. And today I finally put my plan in action, while watching the Linux Outlaws Live podcast I draw the pattern, pretty basic one as you can see, I used my mother’s old leather bag as model and cut the pieces. It is quite late so I didn’t start sewing tonight. This is kind of preview what’s going on. Anyway It needs still the lining. I have to look what I have or then I have to wait until I have money again.
I cut a 50cm wide piece off the cloth but all together I’d say this bag didn’t require more than 50×100 cm piece (cloth self was about 150cm wide).
Here are the pictures:
That carpet btw, is made by my mother. Front view.
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