It looks like a golden trash bag (!) because I can´t resist trompe d’oeil, and I find this fabric endlessly amusing.
Photo of a small cotton bag hanging on a door.
The fabric is in golds and browns and looks either
like crushed trash, or crumpled satin.
It slips over my wrist when I´m using my sock loom, keeping the yarn and all the bits and pieces in one place. It´s incredibly useful, and only took an hour to make.
I took the pattern from this DIY Double Sided ECO Bag video , which gives detailed instructions on how to make the pattern. I drew it free-hand, though, using quarter-inch grid paper. As long as you know the size you want, it´s easy enough to do.
Photo of a pattern cut from quarter inch
quadrille white drafting paper with blue lines.
The grid on the drafting paper makes keeping things symmetrical simple. Once the pattern is drawn, and two pieces each of main and lining material cut out, each piece is joined at the top of the strap. Then the main piece and the lining piece are laid right side together, and stitched, but only along the curves which form the opening of the bag.
Close-up of the fabric in the first photo, showing gold and
brown shades dyed to make the fabric look crumpled.
Then the top of the bag is turned right side out, and the main body and lining body pieces are joined along the side seams — with, importantly, an opening in the lining side for turning. Lastly, the box corners are joined, and the bag turned right side out. (That opening will need some blind stitching to close it up.)
The openings are then edge- or top- stitched, and that´s all there is to the project. Not only is this a very practical little bag, but it´s also reversible.
Photo of the lining of a cotton bag, showing foliage in
blues, browns, greens and golds, with an overlay of
black dinosaur-like skeletons.
I put the carnivores on the inside, also just for fun. This bag is strictly for my sock loom; I think I´d be leery of putting lunch inside, given the inner residents!