Last summer before Sam went away to drama school she acquired several pairs of jeans from Freecycle. Being a lover of cut off jean shorts she hoped to recycle the jeans into a good shorts supply before going away!
Unfortunately, many of them were way too large so I asked if I could have them for patchwork and spent a lot of time cutting them into 4 inch squares. Another long period of time passed before I came to have enough free time to make my friend Linda this patchwork denim bag. I lined it with some excess curtain material that was left over from some curtains I made for Lisa's bedroom some years ago. It is quite an ethnic print with a lovely navy, rust and mustard motif which really suits matching up to denim.
Linda wrote me a thank you note, saying how much she appreciated the amount of time that had gone into making the bag which I thought was lovely as not everyone always seems to like a homemade gift.
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