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.