Back to the ‘every day’ after a long and wonderful Christmas break. I enjoy Christmas a lot with all the ‘hygge’ time and the great food. However, I must admit that I’m equally happy when it’s all packed away in January. The clean and fresh feeling when it’s all gone always creates a lot of new and exciting creative ideas.

Before I completely let go of Christmas I will, however, show you some gifts I made out of recycled materials this year.

The toilet bags are all sewn out of old and warn-out jeans – a fantastic material for a lot of different creative projects. I have previously shown how I have made embroidery on fabric from jeans. Additionally I have written about bags made out of old jeans in a couple of postings. The Christmas toilet bags are a combination of the jeans embroidery and making bags out of the jeans.

The bags are decorated with Sashiko embroidery made with a contrasting colour on dark jeans fabric. Sashiko embroidery is a reasonably simple type of embroidery which I find goes very well with the jeans fabric.

Some of the toilet bags are made out of just one pair of jeans. However, others are a combination of different jeans, this gives a colour play which I like a lot.

The toilet bags all have a pocket inside which is a recycled back pocket from the jeans. The lining of the bags is similarly made with recycled fabric from shirts, bed-linen etc. I have quite a lot of recycled fabric in stock as I tend to save things which I might be able to use sometime in the future – so it is nice to get some of it used.

A couple of the toilet bags have got a layer of plastic between the jeans fabric and the lining. The plastic layer is made out of carrier bags which have been ironed together to make them thicker.

I love using recycled materials in my creative projects. The toilet bags are very good examples of recycling and you will definitely see more of that on this blog in 2019.

Indlægget Toilet bags out of recycled materials blev først udgivet på Kreative tanker.