When I was shopping with my husband for our son’s birthday gifts I saw two sets of Marie Clare tea towels which I thought would be ideal for my Tea Towel Totes range. They had two colourways…pink with soft turquoise and fawn or beige with soft green. I sewed them last night and was quite pleased with the result. I lined the tote with soft cotton in soft turquoise and now I have only to find some pretty buttons to sew onto the area where the straps join the bag.
Songbird is from a set of tea towels I found some weeks ago at K Mart…they are strong traditional linen type tea towels and have come up even better than anticipated. This is really a case of something looking 100% better in real life. Both of these totes are fun and look good and extremely useful but are not going to be financially viable as a sourse of income for me as they take the same amount of time to make as one of my more luscious upholstery style bags, but I am committed to making them as they are good for the environment and we all need pretty shopping bags. I shall probably stick to making totes out of the fabric I already have though as that actually works out less expensive in some cases as a lot of that is recycled.
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wow, those are great. I just love the song birds. Very Creative!
love the totes!!
I love the songbirds too…they are quite elegant. I am going to run some up out of pillowcases next!
who would have thought that these started as tea towels…i love them…and the tweet, tweet, tweet…is so great!!!! wonderful work.
Oh my but I do love those songbirds and you have done a beautiful job on the bag. Good for you! I wonder whether have them in our Walmart…hmmmm…I will have to make the trek and check it out also.
Hope you have a nice day.
Judi
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