Thursday 3 September 2015

Recent Sewing Project: Shopper Bag

Just a small blog post about a shopper bag I recently made for a friend. She's sausage dog mad and when I saw this fabric on EBay I had to get it and make something for her. She recently moved house so I thought it may come in handy and she was delighted when it arrived with their new home card.


It's the first sewing project I've done in a while actually and I loved getting the sewing machine out. I made the handles on this bag a little too long I think, but it always annoys me when a bag doesn't have long enough handles for you to shove it over your shoulder when carrying other bags and trying to get the key in the door! I must get around to making some more things soon on the sewing machine; I've seen some fantastic patterns for a peg bag which I'd really like to make and the lovely little silk jewellery bag an old work colleague bought me has just about fallen apart so I need to make a new one of those too, it's just finding the time to get around to getting all the sewing bits out and having some needle n thread therapy.

Anyway, here's a photo of Barry modelling my handiwork!

 
 
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6 comments:

  1. Sue in Suffolk3 September 2015 at 07:38

    Lovely picture, well done on the bag it looks good

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  2. Jo@awholeplotoflove3 September 2015 at 08:42

    It's a great make & useful too. I could do with some for my crafting corner I could arrange them at the top of the sofa ha ha! Ebay is addictive for fabric shopping isn't it, I ordered an advent calender panel for my sister & two sets of Christmas fat quarters jumped into the basket too! Ahh look at Barry in the bag, so cute xx

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  3. Dawn3 September 2015 at 09:57

    A doggy bag brilliant, I must make a little drawstring pouch that can clip on to Sol's lead to keep poop bags in, instead of stuffing them in my pocket :-)

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  4. Unknown4 September 2015 at 04:57

    Thanks Sue :-) Have a lovely weekend x

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  5. Unknown4 September 2015 at 04:59

    Hi Jo, they are mighty useful, I'm going to make another bigger version to store all my balls of wool in as they're currently in a boring old carrier bag and the needles keep jabbing through! Which means I could probably do with a knitting needle case too... I will get around to all these things one day! Oooh I've not even looked at Christmas fabrics on Ebay... guess what I'll be doing this weekend!! Have a good one x

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  6. Unknown4 September 2015 at 05:00

    Thanks Dawn, that's a great idea about the poop bags, I've got one of the Pets at home ones on the reel just because it clips onto the lead handle for convenience but perhaps I too should look at making my own version. x

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