Last night I pulled this super cute dress from my project stash. I guess I am just in the mood for springtime, even though we are expecting some winter-y weather for the next couple of days. I kept finding myself drawn to this green madras so it became my latest dress - to - purse.
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| The beginning. Lined green madras dress. |
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| I used the dress lining to line this bag. |
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| This is actually the bottom half of the skirt, half of the fullness removed. I sewed the bottom closed, sewed the side closed and added a couple of darts. |
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| I sewed the handles from the part of the skirt that I didn't use. All I did was to sew an inside out tube then turned them right side out. I tucked the ends of the handles between the liner and outside, folded the edges in and sewed the two pieces together, attaching the handles at the same time. |
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| This purse was super easy to make. |
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| This bag is much cuter than the original dress, dontcha think? |
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| I had an audience for my photo shoot. |
3 comments:
This bag is really cute! Isn't it great to take fabric that just doesn't work as one thing and make it into another.
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Nice purse! thanks for linking up and for following me. Came by to do the same ;)
Great way to recycle a dress! Thanks for stopping by DIY Addict! It's funny you mention the work involved with painting concrete sub-floors, because I am just about to pull the carpet up in my sun room and paint that concrete! We'll see how it goes!
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