Amelia (different one than before) wanted to make a gift for her mom's birthday. Having just finished all of my own messy bags, I thought this would be a great project for her to do especially because she loves to paint. It took about four hours to complete. Two for the painting one day and two to sew it another.
She painted a big piece of canvas with acrylic paint (and white house paint to make it spread and reduce the amount of coloured paint required). She also drizzled with the white house paint.
She printed on it using bubble wrap, toilet paper rolls and other recyclables.
She also wrote on it with thinned out paint and used ink to create coloured drips.
Again I had a denim needle on my machine. Amelia added pockets to the inside of the bag with the left over fabric. She finds it difficult to sew without the pieces being pinned together but we discovered to painted fabric is too thick for pins. Instead we used the black bulldog (or binder) clips to hold everything together. They worked like magic. The fabric was also quite heavy so I held the fabric up while she sewed so it wouldn't drag and pull off the straight line.
She opted for plain canvas straps.
All done.
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