More little drawstring pouch bags. It’s really nice making one or two of these a day, between making aprons, or when I’ve spent all day on the computer doing marketing/social media. They are made from canvas leftover from making No14:2 & No4:5 aprons.
A weekend project I set myself, to make use of the small pieces of fabric generated from making aprons in the range, reducing textile waste and creating something genuinely useful. This is a canvas tool bag with a little pocket and a drawstring closure that pulls up tightly to form a loop, so you can slip it over your wrist or hang it up on a hook. There’s a surprising amount of room in there for pens, pencils, brushes, pottery tools, carving tools up to 20cm long. My daughter’s first observation was that it would make a good phone bag! As tool bags go I think it’s rather cute!
The newest addition to my ‘Boro Collection’ The Kit Bag 002, it’s not an apron!!
I’m very economic with apron layouts trying really hard not to waste fabric, only throwing away the smallest slivers of fabric, the rest I keep… piles of it! Some can be sewn together in a patchwork to make individual one-of-a-kind aprons for the ‘Boro Collection’; but some fabrics don’t lend themselves to that, the canvas for example becomes too stiff to drape. As canvas is a traditional fabric for bags I’ve begun to experiment. To understand the size and shapes involved, my first bags are made with larger remnants of fabric, before I move on to making pieced patchwork bags.
The 002 Kit Bag is made from two pieces of ochre canvas leftover from cutting out two No14:2 pleated split leg aprons (see photo – one rectangle is next to me partly under the ringbinder etc). It’s a large bag (56cm x 43cm) easily accommodating an A3 sketchpad, has a drawstring top with orange cord and black cord lock, and dark grey soft herringbone tape straps which are sewn securely with 12 bars of orange stitching.
£78 • In The Making Aprons online shop • Etsy • Folksy
