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Two cosmetic bags |
I had a fun time making these two cosmetic bags. I bought a kit from Patched Works that included pre-sewn white zippers and printed batting for two bags. I bought these in March of 2021 and I chose white as I wasn't sure what fabrics I was going to use.
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Old kimonos |
When I was ready to work on the bags, I was searching through my stash and found a bag of old kimonos that I had bought by the pound many years ago. There were five different kimonos and the pattern called for six different fabrics. I found a piece of 'sequined' fabric in my stash that matched so now I had my six different fabrics. At first I was only going to take apart the kimonos just enough to get what I needed for the bags. After starting I then decided to deconstruct all the kimonos completely, thus having the fabric available for future projects. That took a couple of weeks to rip out all the seams and press all the pieces.
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Kit with pre-sewn zippers |
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Printed batting |
Following the directions I cut the sized pieces I needed. I used the lining of one of the kimonos for the lining of the bags. Even though it warned about not pressing until all sewing was completed, I did press out the wrinkles from the batting. For the first piece I did forget to stitch around the outline to secure the lining in place, it made the last step harder.
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Sewing on the pieces |
Then came the fun of sewing the pieces/strips on, it was similar to paper piecing but here your pieces were cut to the exact size needed and you sewed with a 1/4" seam allowance instead of on the line. I did opt to do some embroidery on one of the pieces from the larger bag. After the final outline and trimming, I did use an overcast stitch on my sewing machine to finish off the edges. On the smaller bag I used some ribbon from my stash and a decorative stitch at the bottom of the zipper piece. For the larger bag, I chose to use a decorative stitch to sew on the zipper piece. Unfortunately my machine skipped stitches occasionally so it didn't turn out as nice as I had hoped. Guess the machine needs to go in for some TLC.
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Small bag |
This was a fun project that I wouldn't mind doing again. It is a good way to use up small pieces of leftover fabrics.
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Large bag |