So my friend redid her house recently and when she did she gave me all of her old curtains, one of the sets was a canvasey fabric, I wanted to make it a bag but couldn't decide what type until the other day when I was looking through a magazine.  I saw a bag that I liked the look of except for the fact that it was far too small(I'm like Marry Poppins with my purse), and I'm having a zipper shortage since I haven't been able to get to the thrift store I buy them at($0.25, way better than Wal-Mart), so I took the flower idea and kind of tweeked it to be more me and this is what I got:


And a close up of a flower:


I like my bags to hang low heres kind of an idea of were it hangs:

OK so thats probably a stupid title but o well.  here are two skirts I made, the one is a green and blue  striped pencil(ish) skirt that I made from some t shirt fabric I found in a thrift store for like 10 cents; the other is made from some stretchyfull purple fabric with bats on it that I got from Wally World's dollar bin after Halloween.  I call the bat one the Batty Bat because it always makes me want to sing that song from Sesame Street(I sound like a total freak right now but if you know the song then you know what I'm talking about,it's a really fun song ).  My mom hates them both she says the first is too short and she hates the bat fabric("Its too darkly themed").

Front of stripedy one


Back:



The Batty Bat(it folds over because it was originally intended too be a dress but it was too big and fell down like that, I liked the way it looked so I kept it like that.)


And its swooshy too!



(please excuse the bellyage my shirt is a bit too short)

So I got this fabric from Jo-Anne's for like $1 a yard so I got a yard(I love plaid but don't like pink all that much), I figured it would be good as a dress so I made up a pattern and this is what came out, one of the back ties is about a 1/4 inch higher than the other but noone but me ever seems to notice.
Front:


Back:


(sorry about the bra straps)

So there were a lot of firsts with this project: first time I've actually followed a pattern(JJ from budrastyle.com), first time I did sleeves, and first time I actually used an iron while sewing something.  patterns usually intimidate/confuse me with their taking like 3 pages just to say sew up the side, but this one didn't seem so bad and I thought that it was pretty, it was supposed to have buttons but i figured that it was too many firsts for me in one day, I took off the ruffles and the loopy side things as well.  I made a pin to hold it closed by covering a bottlecap with the fabric and glue-gunning a pin back to it. The fabric has red and bright orange flowers and apples on it.  But anywhoo here it be...

Front


Back(sorry about the weird light)

ok so this is my first post(Woo-Hoo!) so I hope this works right.  Anyway, my friend Becca gives me a ride home from school about twice a week and I wanted to thank her but couldn't figure out how other than money and food, that is until I saw this spiderman fabric in the dollar bin at Wally World(she loves spidey).  I got the bag idea from "Generation T"(an unchristmas present from my best bud) and just decided to make it reversible and not out of a t-shirt.  The other side is of some dancing frog fabric that I've had for a while and not known what to make of it.  Hope ya's like it, sorry to ramble. heres the links to the pics:


The black spidey side


The red spidey side


The froggy side

and finally tied and hanging from a chair:

So I hope that worked...