Sunday, February 13, 2011

REPURPOSE VS UP-CYCLE

I'm still stuck on this whole recycle - upcycle - repurpose thing.  I THINK this is a "repurpose."  When I was making this quilt (which I still have not decided to actually give away yet).  I thought I'd like strippy setting triangles ... I did not.  So I repurposed them (I think).

They were already made and cut into triangles, so I sewed them together.


And then cut them apart and sewed them together again.

And then I cut them into pieces and quilted them.  Here's a VERY scientific way of cutting rounded edges ... there's actually some little blocks in that yogurt container, I just carefully flipped it upside down.

After all the cutting apart and sewing back together and cutting apart and sewing back together ... I made a messenger bag.

With a zipper ...

and a back pocket ...

and a VERY cute yo-yo and button pretend closure ...

It's pretend because I really used a magnetic snap under the flap.  The button is just pretty.
There are lots of patterns for messenger bags out there.  Some are even free - like this one and this one.  I read over several and used parts of each and then threw in my own variations.  Daughter #2 will be getting this for Valentine's Day.  By the way - her request for a black and gray bag.

3 comments:

Sharon said...

Awesome little bag! thanks for the link, will have to check it out!

Stitched With Prayer said...

OH!!! It's wonderful! Thanks for the link. Hugs...

Dawn said...

Very cute!