Recycling T-shirt

So I have two t-shirts that I don't like any more because it's already stretched here and there (what do you expect from a $5 t-shirt?). Since I'm about to go back home for good, I want to be as efficient as possible with my luggage. I decided to made a reversible tote back from the shirts, and made head band and a fabric necklace from the remaining fabric.

This is the picture of one of the shirt before:

And here are the "transformation" of the t-shirt:

All of them (tote bag, necklace, head band)

Head band and necklace


Necklace

Tote Bag side A

Tote Bag Side B

Ex-jeans Bag

When I went back home 3 months ago, I was devastated to see my wardrobe. Before I came here, my clothing consists of t-shirt - jeans - shirts. Moreover, the only pair of jeans that I have was already torn here and there. So I decided to upcycle some of them. I used my old torn jeans to be a bag and use one of my unused shirt for the lining inside. I used some leftover fabric for the flap cover to make the bag looks nicer. If you pay attention to the photo, you can find lots of torn parts, so I had to patch them.

How much money do I spend for this? Well, probably only for the velcro and the fabric for the flap. Bet the rest? Zero!

Aaannndd, here it is, my denim bag <3

ps: from the size of the bag, you can guess that I do have a big bum...

The front

Overall View

The bag opened

 back view

My old jeans

Bag open

Bag inside (lining)

A Happy Coin Purse

Another post! I think I'm catching up quite fast, don't you think?

This time I would like to show you the coin purse that I made for my housemate. This is my second time sewing with a purse frame. Since I'm just too afraid to knock the frame with hammer to close the gap between the frame and the fabric, I glue and hand sew it. And since I'm just too lazy to sew it neatly and hide the sew under the inside part of frame, I just let it exposed like that. And it's quite bulky because when I took the photo, I didn't take out all the coins inside XD
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And here it is: the coin purse :)

Materials:
- Fabric for outside and inside (you can even use scrap fabrics for this. It's quite small)
- medium interfacing
- feltcloth (to give the purse more form)
- purse frame

Final size: around 9x10 cm

I bought all the materials at Lincraft.

Pinkish Traveller

*still in the mood of playing with the new editing feature on Photobucket*

Even though my master dissertation is still far away from finished, the feeling of "Yay I finally coming back home" is already very strong. Thus, a new passport case was made.

I'm not really sure whether both premises are related, but the point is, I made a passport case! A new pink passport case from fabrics that I found at op-shops and Lincraft. I like this flower fabric because of the brand marking in near the selvage, which shows that this fabric is a vintage fabric (when I googled, the company doesn't produce screen print fabric any more. It's a Japanese company named unitika). Unfortunately, I did some mistake with the sewing: I positioned the inside pocket little bit slanted to one side T__T But it already happened. At least I made this for myself, so I just going to pretend everything's alright :)


So here it is, the heavily edited photos of my new passport case.


ps: as I mentioned before, I'm playing with the new feature on Photobucket, that's why you'll see different editing on the pictures


Materials:
1. Vintage flower fabric (you can see from the writing in the cover, it's directly from the fabric itself).
2. Solid colour fabric
3. Coordinated colour fabrics (green pattern and pink dots, both bought at Lincraft)
4. Velcro
5. Heavy weight interfacing
6. Feltcloth (to make the case fluffier)
7. Zipper (a pink one!)

Flower power!

So 2 weekends ago, me and my friend had a shopping spree and we fell in love with the flower headbands. I bought two, then I though, I definitely can make it by myself. Thank you to google and youtube guru, I finally made my first ever flower headbands <3

So here they are.

Model: One of my lovely student here, Myla

Materials:
1. Elastics (I found out the cheap black elastic is little bit too strong for my head)
2. Scrap fabrics
3. Buttons, lots of it
4. Internet connection (you know, to search how to make these flowers)

And yes, I'm playing with the new Photobucket's edit function. Why everything has to be very instagramish nowadays?

When my Mom and my Grandma fight for a bag...

I think all crafter out there know about Amy Butler. Yes, she's one of the "it" name in sewing world. I bought her bag sewing tutorial, Amy Butler's Style Stitches with a high expectation. Well, the book does have lots of  great bag, but blasphemy! The tutorial is quite difficult to follow (hopefully it's not because of my lack English), the illustration for the tutorial is very few, and the materials are very costly (there is no way that I will follow her materials suggestion).

Nevertheless, I managed to make one of the (supposed to be) beginner bag (that took me an entire day to make! What kind of beginner is that??). But it turns out very pretty and beautiful. My mom and my grandma fell in love in an instance, and voila, the bag is not mine any more.

So here it is, the bag, with a little tweak from the real design :)

Materials:

Fabric
- Reunion by Moda (Vanilla and Cherry Johnny's Jack and Graphite Ava's Apron)
- Some flower fabric I bought at Lincraft
- Two 2.5cm button
- Medium weight interfacing

SIDE A

SIDE B (Yes, I made it into a double sided bag)

INSIDE

The tweak: I made the bag 5cm smaller than the original pattern, remove the side pocket, made it double sided, and use button hole instead of following the instruction from the book.

Mir

That lovely top!

Flea market is always a good place to find some good but cheap products. I found this lovely flowy flowery fabric in a second hand event months ago. Since the fabric is quite small, I combined it with other fabric. Voila, a flowery sleeveless top :)

I made the pattern by myself. Unfortunately, the size of the armhole is just too small. Well, practice makes perfect. This is also the first time I use french seam to close the seam.

So, here it is, my lovely top :)

My first ever French Seam

A wallet for a friend

Months ago, my friend requested a wallet from me, and this is the result :)

Black and White Wallet


Fabrics:
- cheap black and white fabrics that I bought at Spotlight and Lincraft.
- calico

Front View

Back View

Inside View 1

Inside View 2