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Mar 17, 2016

A New Bag by Reforming an Unworn Dress

Every Wednesday, my boss (also my Mom) and her friend get together to reform unused goods into something amazing... I am joining them on a project to reform my favorite dress into a bag! 

The Before Pic: Here is my pinstriped dress
. . .  which will now better serve me as a new bag~ 
The fabric is a little bit stretchy and also bumpy.

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Making of the Bag, Process Pics

Step 1: Cut off the bottom half of the dress
I cut off right below the arm pits to get full use of my dress.
I need a large carry all tote for my leather school projects.
It will hold all my tools, pattern papers, as well as the bag in the making.

Step 2: Cut out details to decorate the front of the bag
Here, you can see the ivory goat leather.
One side is moderately shiny, the other side is soft velvety texture.
It was very easy to cut. It was like cutting into cheese!

Step 3: The major pieces for the bag cut out
I now have the front and sides of the bag already pieced together (because it was cut out from a dress!). The front logo detail ready to be sewn, and the bottom is also ready for sewing. I cut out 2 more pieces from the ivory goat leather for shoulder straps.

Next steps: I will go to the Dongmyo market to get some gold metal pieces.
I will need the shoulder chains, 4 donut rings, and 5 tiny legs for the bottom.

I am so excited for this bag!

More to come...
Next Wednesday~~

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Mar 5, 2016

My Second Bag - Making a Boston Bag

After the Hermes Birkin bag, the second bag we were taught to make is a Boston style bag. I don't really favor the shape and dimensions of a Boston bag. They look like old lady bag to me! :P 

So, I decided to really stretch it by making mine into a briefcase style shoulder bag. It's really barely a Boston bag... But still, it was rather exciting to create my own pattern and design for this project!

I've had to switch phones so I'm going to have to find the initial photos for this bag from one of my backup folders...

The zipper in a window...

Adjustable shoulder straps...

Can you notice the difference between the left and right edges?
The clipper tool we have helped shape the bag to a sharper form!

The bag before the shoulder straps were added on...

I LOVE bags that can hold A4 papers for work...
and books...