{"id":212,"date":"2008-02-03T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T22:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/refashioned-bag\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T22:31:33","slug":"refashioned-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/refashioned-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"refashioned bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project has been in the works for a long time. I was halfway through it when my old sewing machine <a href=\"\/blog\/sewing-machine-blues\/\">gave up on me<\/a>! I&#8217;m happy to report that my <a href=\"\/blog\/look-at-my-new-toy\/\">new sewing machine<\/a> tackled it without any difficulties &#8211; even when sewing through 8 layers of heavy cotton fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I was given this little bag as a gift, and it&#8217;s a useful size, with plenty of pockets. One problem: I really didn&#8217;t like that nasty brown fake leather strap.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/bagmod1.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>With no clear plan in mind, I decided to do something about it. I started by cutting off off all the plastic &#8216;leather&#8217; pieces and deconstructing them:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/bagmod2.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>I chose a blue heavyweight cotton with a large leaf print from my fabric stash, and then I recreated all the missing pieces in this fabric. I reused the metal rings from the original strap, and added some length to the new strap because the old one was too short for my liking. I sewed all the pieces together on the sewing machine, and added the finishing touches by hand. <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/bagmod4.jpg' alt='bagmod4.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>And the end result:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/bagmod3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>I debated added an embellishment to the front pocket flap, but I think it&#8217;s okay like this &#8211; the matching zipper pulls add some continuity between the bag and the handle. At least it&#8217;s useable now, and thankfully there&#8217;s no <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_leather#Plastic_leather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleather<\/a> in sight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project has been in the works for a long time. I was halfway through it when my old sewing machine gave up on me! I&#8217;m happy to report that my new sewing machine tackled it without any difficulties &#8211; even when sewing through 8 layers of heavy cotton fabric. I was given this little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}