Recycling

The fabrics I use for my bags and pouches are mostly reused, old curtains, tablecloths and such. When I knit&felt my bags, I use those for lining. Every now and the (too rarely, actually) I sew bags from the scratch. But today I did and I like it a lot:

Everything else but the needle felted birdies wool and the sewing thread were reused (oh and the button was new and I covered it with bags fabric).

The plaid fabric is wool-polyester blend (pair of trousers I bought from local fleamarket even they were about three sizes too small, I saw them as a bag. I have them in pink too, just wait and see!) and the lining is a reused cotton pillowcase. There´s a sturdy polyester layer between the top and lining too; it came from reused baby blanket.

With these materials the bag turned out not only cute but absolutely unique. And even I am not the eco-friendliest person in whole world (there´s so much more I could do) I am quite proud of myself too.

This felt so good I need to make an another (in pink perhaps?) soon.

Have a green Sunday!