Part of the reason I got the embroidery machine is because I wanted to sew dog collars.  A bit of background:  a coworker of mine has her own 501c3 charity – a dog rescue, with shelter in-home with fosters.  She asked me how hard it would be to make a dog collar.  I had a crappy machine and managed to churn one out.  I now make collars and other stuff for the purpose of donation to rescues.

At work, we had a big conference here in town and there were leftover fabric bags (the white nylon/poly blend ones).  I asked to see if I can upcycle them.  This was the result:

I used some scrap quilt fabric to cover the printed design and embroidered the logo (from Embroidery Designs).  I then created a ‘sleeve’ that I slid on the bag and sewed on.

I like the result, but I will be changing the pattern.  The cheap running stitches on the edges of the bag aren’t very strong, so I’ll be ripping the bag open next time and putting the bag together with more robust seams.

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