holiday upcycle

We are off on holiday shortly.

Two weeks camping in France. Yay! An adventure!

As usual I am a perfect procrastinator.

Instead of altering the frock I want to take with me, or sorting out the camping box, I have been musing on holiday makes.

I have also been trying to give up carrier bags recently, after the stash reached such gargantuan proportions it threatened, like the blob, to take over the kitchen.

This bag is the result.

I got the idea from this simple tutorial by green crafter Betz White.

The fabric isn’t vintage, just something sturdy picked up cheaply on eBay.

It looked a bit, well, unfinished when I’d finished it.

So I added homemade trim, left over from a recent commission.

Et voilà, something functional but “meh”, transformed into something I’m happy to sashay with “sous le soleil”.

It looks so much nicer hanging up in the kitchen than before.

I might make more.

We could do with somewhere to store all those carrier bags…