Here is the first complete bag. It is made up of 15 6" crazy pieced blocks, joined with 2" sashing (from curtain samples!) and lined with some dyed linen sheeting.
More craziness to come. In the meantime, I am sharing this post at:
This blog shows my recycled denim creations, along with tutorials for items I have designed myself. I collect old jeans (a strange collection, I know!) and cut them up to make bags, purses, animals and other items of varying sizes and shapes. I then sell these to raise money for weomen and children in the town of Utange, near Mombasa, in Kenya. I help women to set up their own businesses and am supporting the building of a new school for disabled children.
I don't like to waste fabric either but I'm not saving and reusing the difficult bits of jeans - I just don't need the frustration and broken needles, lol. My husband and sons work in construction so their pants get stained with all manner of permanent yuckiness, and worn out knees and rips and tears are par for the course - I save what I can and trash the rest. Your scrappy patchwork bags are cute!
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