Sometimes we have lots of clothes that may seem not useful for us anymore but... we are WRONG! oh yes we are wrong.
<-- front side of the purse. I'm the kind of person that will have bunches and bunches of old clothes all pilled up in the closet or somewhere else!
Let me say that this skirt wasn't mine.. noup! i used to be kinda tomboy [maybe i'm still one.. ] when i was younger so i didn't buy these kind of clothing, i was all about jeans and stuff. I didn't buy dresses either [i'm begining to buy them at last!] But umm this post is not about my likes and dislikes in clothing hah so instead i'll tell you how you can do a purse like this. And no.. you can't wear this!
back side of the purse -->>
First thing you gotta do is find an old skirt you think you'll never use again! never never again in your life... [okay that sounded drastic but it's true]. I say find cause i found this one , i didn't buy it or something similar, i found it here in my house one day. It looked like trash so i had to wash it before so make sure it's clean, otherwise it won't look good. Oh.. but you gotta be sure that nobody will use it, don't be selfish and think about others haha. But now that i mention this i don't even know who was the owner of this skirt tehee, i'm a bad person or what?. Maybe one day the owner will show up and tell me "yo ilze! that's my skirt.. wth?! you turned it into a purse?". [let's hope that doesn't happen].
Okay, you got your skirt all cleaned up? yeah? all right! First, you'll have to cut two pieces of jean fabric in order to do the handles, because we want a purse with handles right? i mean you can do it without the handles but i don't think you'll want to be carrying it all around. These two pieces that you will cut, make sure that are the same size, you'll sew them at the very half [ you can fold them to see where the half is at]. In other words you'll shape them in the shape [durh] of handles u u u. <-- similar to that.
<-- the inside of the purse.Then, you'll have to sew the skirt from the very bottom, this is not difficult to accomplish if you have a sewing machine. Just sew it from one side to the other, just follow the bottom line. I sew from the inside but you can do it from the outside too. When you finish sewing this you can sew it from the sides too, i did it because for some reason i thought it would be more resistant [rawr!]. You can see in the pictures that sewing i'm telling you. There's no need to sew the pockets from anywhere, they look nice heh besides you can use them to store things inside, as if it was a simple skirt.
You can add some decoration to the purse when you are finished with sewing. oh i almost forgot.. the handles! yes they're important. You'll sew them from the front and back side [look at picture #1] there you can see clearly the handles. Sew them as many times as you can! when i sewed this the first time i only did it once so you can imagne how it was.. i hung it over my shoulder and tttttrrrrsssssttt..! it ripped! yeah it sucked but then i sewed it again for like hmm.. 6 times or so and now it's resistant as _____. yeah like that!
Things you'll need:
-An old skirt.
-Scissors
-Needle and thread
-Sewing machine
-Time and dedication >:)