The crochet cotton bags are left from a batch I made to sell on behalf of a local church restoration project. Four of these had been completed, but the remaining two weren't made up in time for the church sale, and have been left unfinished ever since. The patchwork is more recent - a second design started from the "Stack-n-Whack" book which has yet to be made up.
The canvas bag already had the embroidered flowers on when I bought it in a charity shop, but my intention was to decorate both sides with beads etc. Finally, the last item pictured was an idea I had to make a gathered skirt re-using old fabrics decorated with ribbon and lace. Some of the fabric and the lace had been hand dyed to toning colours but the pieces then were put aside. It's waiting for a zip to be bought... and one of the fabrics frays very easily - as I don't have an overlocker I'm thinking of binding the edge of that fabric but that might make it too thick on the gathers...
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