Category: Bag Making

  • What can I say?  I still had some denim strips left!

    What can I say? I still had some denim strips left!

    And I’m certainly not one to waste recycled denim!  So let’s make another bag.  This one is not quite big enough to hold my iPad, not like the last one I made.  This one seemed to go together quicker too!  Perhaps it wasn’t as “fancy” or perhaps I’m actually getting used to throwing them together?!?…

  • How to sew a recycled denim handbag.  Part 2

    How to sew a recycled denim handbag. Part 2

    Back again!  To recap last week’s post … I wanted to make myself a 100% recycled denim bag, using denim strips like those bags I saw on Pinterest.  Last week I cut up my denim jeans, pieced and sewed the strips together and fused on the interfacing for my outer bag walls.  I sewed the…

  • How to sew a recycled denim handbag.

    How to sew a recycled denim handbag.

    I was trying to think of an eye-catching, mysterious title for my blog post.  I couldn’t.  I have too been immersed in bag making lately – sewing creatively, instead of blogging creatively!   The only other handbags I’ve made I posted about here and here.  I made one of them for my sister – she’s seems…

  • No fitting problems last weekend!

    No fitting problems last weekend!

    Happily you do not have to do much fitting when making a bag for your sister.  A while ago I posted on Instagram this photo – asking “What do you think my next project will be”.  There are some clever sewists out there that guessed the answer correctly.  (Sorry, no prize for the winner!) My…

  • I should buy a lottery ticket…

    I should buy a lottery ticket…

    I’m considering myself to be quite lucky!  A couple of weeks ago I won a giveaway (sewing machine feet) from Saturday Night Stitch.  (Thank you again!)  And now… sewtakeahike recently had a giveaway on her blog … and you guessed it… I won! I had my eyeballs on the “Runaround Bag” pattern from noodlehead that was…

  • Whoot! Whoot! Whoot!

    Whoot! Whoot! Whoot!

    It’s time to announce the winners of last week’s giveaway!  I used a List Randomizer on Random.org to pick the winners.  I typed in all your names, pressed “go” and it randomly sorted your names, with the first two names being: 1. UtaC 2. Sewing with Scoobys I did the same for my two pattern names…

  • Yet another purse?

    A good friend at work goes for walks with me at lunch hour. Gotta get some fresh air and exercise! she says. Our path quite often takes us through the Mall with all it’s great shops. She is very careful to keep herself between me and the purse store, she jokes, because she thinks I…