Scrappy

Today I turned an underused skirt into a bag. This skirt was one of the first pieces of clothing that my boyfriend bought for me, so… sorry to him. LOL.

Before: Skirt. True to the blog post title, this skirt looks like a patchwork job made of small pieces (scraps) of the same army fatigue corduroy fabric

After: Bag!

For a moment I thought of just hemming it to make a shorter skirt, but…. no.

 

Here’s the detail of the corner. I just followed the instructions on how to make the boxy corner from this tutorial.

Now I have another new bag!

I put one of my full bags inside. It seems to be holding up to the weight :p

My issue with the bag, though, is that it’s too open. I’m still figuring out how to close it without using a zipper (because I don’t have any). Any suggestions?

 

The other stuff I did were made of scraps I cut out from the clothes I’ve already cut up. First are fabric flowers made with the extra purple cloth from the ruffled blouse (tutorial here):

 

For the rest of the scraps, I made necklaces, inspired by some of the DIY stuff I’ve been seeing around the crafty sites. Necklace #1 is the hem of a brown shirt that I’m re-hemming (if there’s such a word) because of a small hole. I pinned the sequined flower brooch I made just for fun. I might replace this with a fabric flower, though.

 

Necklace #2 is a more random thing, I braided some strips of the purple fabric and twisted the others, and sewed them all together at the back.

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