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Step 3Cutting and sewing
Now you need to use your imagination (or my ideas in the final step) to decide what bag you want. I first started doing this to make shopping bags to replace plastic supermarket bags. We have lots of lovely cottom bags etc in the house but I always forget to have one with me, especially for small shopping.
Umbrellas are either 8 skin panels (octagonalwhen you lay them flat)- picture 1, or6 skin panels (hexagonal) - picture 2. This affects what you can do with them.
The basic shopper is made by cutting the skin in half - pictures 3&4. Then you fold one half in half again, with the right side inside - picture 5.
From an 8-panel skin this gives you a shape which has the former edges of two panels at the top of the bag and a steep point for the bottom of the bag. Sew up the side and put some handles on and thats you done.
I do all my sewing with an old hand sewing machine I got out of a skip (dumpster in USA) so the bags are totally carbon neutral.
If truly desperate you could probably assemble these with staples and duct tape.
Umbrellas are either 8 skin panels (octagonalwhen you lay them flat)- picture 1, or6 skin panels (hexagonal) - picture 2. This affects what you can do with them.
The basic shopper is made by cutting the skin in half - pictures 3&4. Then you fold one half in half again, with the right side inside - picture 5.
From an 8-panel skin this gives you a shape which has the former edges of two panels at the top of the bag and a steep point for the bottom of the bag. Sew up the side and put some handles on and thats you done.
I do all my sewing with an old hand sewing machine I got out of a skip (dumpster in USA) so the bags are totally carbon neutral.
If truly desperate you could probably assemble these with staples and duct tape.
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