It's Jeans Weather Today!

Actually, even though it's raining ... again ... still ... as the Lovely Lilly Linda says, 35 more days and we're going to need an Ark! :0) But that's beside the point, because the temperature, while cooler isn't REALLY cool enough to warrant jeans. Instead, I've been ensconced in my sewing room RECYCLING an old pair of jeans. The weather part of that comes in with the rain - if it was sunny, I'd feel obliged to go outside and pull some of the Triffod weeds out of my garden, but since it's raining, I stayed inside to recycle the jeans! :0)

So ... this little experiment started last weekend when Mum and I made a visit to an op shop being held in a little country community hall where you could take whatever you wanted for a donation. I spotted a pair of jeans that made me think they'd make a great bag and since I've been 'meaning to' have a go at chopping off some jeans to make a bag for quite a while now, I brought them home. Then I had a little dig in my stash to find something suitable to line the bag with. Here are my starting point items ...

Some stripey, out-of-date jeans and a couple of pretty pieces of fabric. Hmmmm ... After some measuring, chopping, pinning, swearing ... oops!! That was when I stuck myself rather hard with a pin and bled everywhere!!! BLUSH!! ... some stitching, some head-scratching, some faulty maths (oops!) and a little bit of 'fudging it', the result of my experiment was ...

Ta Da!! A groovy, roomy bag with LOTS of ready-made pockets! :0) Hmmm ... please don't look too closely at the profile, there, as it's NOT my most flattering angle, but there are apparently SOME things my Beloved Geek Boy won't do for me ... and that list includes modelling a handbag! Tee! Hee! Hee! So it had to be me who modelled it. I looks a little lumpy at the bottom there, (the bag, not me ... although ...!!), but it actually sits pretty well in reality. And what happened to the pretty red fabric, I hear you ask ...

It became the lining. It also caused some of the head-scratching and faulty maths, cos it was a fat quarter and not quite wide enough to fit the bag, so I had to pop a little bit of the green fabric into it to fit ... and decided to add a handy INSIDE pocket to house my Iphone to protect it a bit. I'm also hoping the fact that the phone pocket is a different colour to the rest of the lining will help me find my phone in a hurry ... but knowing the warped physics that seem to apply to the inside of handbags, I'm not counting on it. You know what I mean ... no matter which pocket you THINK you put your keys/wallet/phone in inside your bag, its moved when you go to get it and whatever object you're looking for is bound to be RIGHT at the BOTTOM of your bag ... even if it was the LAST thing to go into the bag, so it should be on TOP!! :0)

So there we go ... how to entertain yourself on a wet afternoon AND be environmentally responsible ... sort of! :0) And now ... I'm off to make myself a cup of lavender tea and have a little read  ... I might even treat myself to a white Tim Tam ... I think I've earned it! :0) Hope your weekend has been relaxing and enjoyable! Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!
KRIS