Bags with Flowers
My daughter made the bag with the yellow flower and the braided strap. I copied her idea and made the one with the orange flower.
My daughter made the bag with the yellow flower and the braided strap. I copied her idea and made the one with the orange flower.
Most of my bags are simple with non-closing, oblong openings. I bought some zippers and messed around making bags that would accommodate them. As us usually the case with such endeavors, the first bag was OK and each subsequent was better.
I am most proud of a couple of these I made. Part of the reason is they turned out really nice. In addition, it was really a pain to make them. Getting the diagonal straps to line up evenly was difficult. Then I had to get the tube that forms the sides be the right size for the bottom. Pat, one of our dayshift nurses, got the best one and every time I see her carrying it, I am quite pleased and tell her she has the best bag I ever made.
This week, I thought I would show the largest and smallest bags I ever made. The size of the large one was determined by the mesh materiel with a draw string I salvaged from another bag. It ended up so huge, I didn’t know what the heck to do with it. Then one of our registration clerks said she would like a large bag for her kids beach stuff. Viola. An appreciative home for it.
The small bag was made to hold just what we need to take to the gym: car keys, wallet, phones, gym passes, gloves.
When the helicopters come in, they frequently have short blue straps on their boards. I have been saving them up and finally came up with some bags using them. The yellow-crossed bag looks like a Swedish flag!
The end of each strap is folded back and sewn to itself. When I had collected enough ends from black and orange straps, I formed them into a bag made entirely of the ends. Check it out!