I appreciate your sacrifice in taking pictures of this. Because we all know without pictures it didn't happen. But you could, you know, get a coat. Or make one with all the corduroy? :-)
Any chance you're going to do one of your useful diagrams? I'm afraid I didn't quite follow how to get the pockets where I wanted them, but I do have some dead dress shirts. Including one that is one of those yellow felty-flannel kinds. (It isn't a surprise I don't want it as a shirt, right? It does have 2 breast pockets.)
How do you attach the strips of shirt lengthwise to conjoin the fabric? Or rather, did you use the obvious method of making a seam and pressing it flat or did you need to reinforce it somehow? And do the seams look or feel weird on the handle? Do you sew the edges of the whole long strip wrong-sides facing and then invert or do you just pin the double-layer together and assume the bag seams will be enough to keep all the fabric together?
Have you thought about the method for making the bag bottom flat or do you like these pouch-style bags? If you were to do the flat bottom, would you still start from the two-sided fabric or would you make them separately and then join?
And... can I send you my dead shirts for enbaggening?
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:58 pm (UTC)I appreciate your sacrifice in taking pictures of this. Because we all know without pictures it didn't happen. But you could, you know, get a coat. Or make one with all the corduroy? :-)
Any chance you're going to do one of your useful diagrams? I'm afraid I didn't quite follow how to get the pockets where I wanted them, but I do have some dead dress shirts. Including one that is one of those yellow felty-flannel kinds. (It isn't a surprise I don't want it as a shirt, right? It does have 2 breast pockets.)
How do you attach the strips of shirt lengthwise to conjoin the fabric? Or rather, did you use the obvious method of making a seam and pressing it flat or did you need to reinforce it somehow? And do the seams look or feel weird on the handle? Do you sew the edges of the whole long strip wrong-sides facing and then invert or do you just pin the double-layer together and assume the bag seams will be enough to keep all the fabric together?
Have you thought about the method for making the bag bottom flat or do you like these pouch-style bags? If you were to do the flat bottom, would you still start from the two-sided fabric or would you make them separately and then join?
And... can I send you my dead shirts for enbaggening?