I love Country Living magazine. The pictures, the ideas, the articles. Love it, Love it, Love it!
The "make me over" article in the January issue is for a sweater purse. You turn an old sweater into a purse. I tried it. It was super easy and cheap. For the entire instructions BUY THE MAGAZINE. I bought the sweater for $3 at a second hand shop. It didn't felt as well as I would have liked and I ended up having to do a running stitch along all the edges. But even with that it only took me 2 days of working at it sporadically. I added the closure strap and the pocket.
One of the things I thought of for next years Christmas presents was hand made bags. I think these will fit the bill quite well. People can use them for a knitting bag, to carry library books, groceries, as a real purse, lunch bags, even make a tall narrow one for wine. I can also use them as gift bags. Put a handmade candle selection, jelly, bath products, or a book in it and "here ya go".
So lets have some fun and keep those ugly, itchy sweaters out of the dump and make some handmade Christmas.
PS, My mother liked the bag so much I gave it to her. Now I'll have to make another for myself. Oh well.
5 comments:
Yeah!!! It looks great. A really useful size. Wow! I am starting on Christmas presents already too. I am having a hard time getting decent pictures of things lately. I have to wait until the weekend to get earlier light than when I get home from work. Thanks for the inspiration. -tonia
P.S. I like the icy picture in your header. I have to figure out how to get a picture to show up there. Did you have to resize your picture before it would go there?
I went to layout and where the header is hit edit. Then I just hit browse and got it off my desktop. I didn't have to resize it but I use picassa editing which is a google thing so may be it just does it?
Thanks! I will try again.
--Tonia
Oh,
I have another idea for Christmas (or other gift giving times.) Potholders!!! If you have a stash of fabric and some cotton batting and bias tape (I get lots of bias tape from yard sales and goodwill,)potholders are easy (so I am told) to make and everyone (almost) can use them. I am working on getting my confidence in sewing up there and potholders seemed like a good start. Then aprons, that maybe match the potholders. Hope you are well. -tonia
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