Day 224-turning a t-shirt into a bag

Today I had the best intentions of getting up early and making a good head start on the next week of craft projects........  but in reality
I got up at 11.30am
Started sewing by 1pm
and continued working on two bags from 1pm-7.30pm.... and they are still not finished!
They are looking good though! I just kept deciding to add things like appliques, lining, interfacing etc...
ughhhh the earlier enthusiasm has worn off!
So below are the two bags so far, I will hopefully complete them tomorrow!

I started with some black drill fabric and an old tote bag of mine which is a great shape

I made a pattern using newspaper (as I have run out of my roll of craft paper)

 me cutting out the pattern

 I wanted to use the prints from these two "hello kitty" t-shirts as the front feature on the bags

 these are samples I purchased from work earlier in the year which have cuts in them

from here I cut out the bag shape from the drill

and then cut the front print out of the t-shirt

I had two different applique techniques I wanted to try out

the first one is as follows...

cut iron on interfacing to help support the print

iron the interfacing on

then position the print where you want it to sit on the bag (on the wrong side of the bag)

use my trusty Brother machine to zig zag stitch the edges

 zig zag stitch to the wrong side of the bag (print facing out to the right side)

 flip over to the right side where you are left with a picture frame view of the zig zag stitching

and then carefully cut the middle out revealing the print inside the zig zag frame

I ended up zig zag stitching around the edge again just to ensure it would not fray

for the side seams I have matched up some stripey fabric that works well with the print colours

 its starting to take shape

then I decided... well Ive gone to THIS much effort, I may as well interface the lining to make the bag more sturdy

 see the lining can stand by itself with the facing attached

 insert the lining

the other bag is at the same point

I will have to finish them both off tomorrow as its turned out to take alot longer than i expected!

red hello kitty t-shirt

 for this applique i just interfaced it and placed it on top of the fabric before zig zag stitching around it

it was much quicker and easier like this

 red sides

 the bag so far!!

MEEEOOOOOWWWWW OUT

crafty cats

xxoo