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Just for fun, I made a marionette puppet of a bird from an old sweater, some yarn, and buttons for feet. The handle was two dowels, filed down for the junction and held together with yarn. In this video he dances to Michael Jackson. My "Durham Love Yourself" t-shirt was getting a bit old, so I decided it was time to turn it into a bag for myself. I like the way the other bags came out, and decided that I wanted one too. The inside of the bag is old flannel pajama, with a double pocket.
A friend gave me three beautiful ceramic cups
she couldn't keep when she graduated from Stanford. In return, I made her this purse from a t-shirt she had loved when she was ten. The bag has a light denim from my second jeans on the inside, and the pocket inside has the tag from the shirt.
 I made this bag from a big t-shirt. It shows a bull's meat as events that happen in Durham, North Carolina. This bag has three layers: a lining, an internal supporting layer of a thin cotton material, and the outside t-shirt material. The lining is yellow, as are the handles and the top edge. It also has a small pocket on the inside.
Click to see a close-up of where the bag's handles attach. I sewed it sort of like a seat-belt, and I think it will be very sturdy.  I also made a lot of arm-warmers from leftover pants fleece. They are very easy, and required no pattern.
I made this purse, with the help of Trevor, all afternoon Saturday. It is from a pattern in Amy Karol's book, 'Bend the Rules Sewing' (a really fun book which I highly recommend. I just got it from the library and really like it!).
The purse is made from materials from the Scrap Exchange. The exciting thing about this bag is that it has straps fed through the sides, meaning when you pick it up it bunches closed. However, I added a snap, because this bunching wasn't quite enough security for me. |
 I made a bag to hang under my bike seat and hold tools and a spare tube. It has a reflective strip on the back in which the rear light can sit. I actually made a better one, but it and that bike were stolen.
This is a purse I made for my three year old cousin out of some fabrics we found together at the East Bay Center for Creative Reuse. The bag is sized for her, and made in the same fashon as the T-shirt tote bag, although with one strap instead of two.
  This fused-plastic hat is almost directly from Craftzine.
The outside of the hat is safeway bags, and the inside is a target bag. My modification was a small piece of t-shirt to keep the sharp ends of the plastic from irritating my forehead.
 I made a lot of fleece-lined camera bags. They have drawstrings (this one has a messy drawstring because it was the template/design one). They are for use by the MIT Edgerton center, and for a class in extreme photography at ASRA.
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