Shag Bag From Recycled T-Shirts

Step 11 Add shoulder pad

Upon further testing, I decided the strap needed a removable shoulder pad.  Why?  Because the strap was thin, the bag was big (and likely to become overloaded and heavy), and because this project had turned into a bit of a crazy time-sink!  Ah well, once you start you have to finish it off properly.  So:

Make a properly-sized pad from four layers of an old fleece blanket, then cut a piece of fabric roughly three times the size of the pad (plus hem space).  Hem edges of the fabric, then sew it over the fleece pad.  It should look like the 2nd picture below.

Then add velcro along the edge of the padded portion (again, see the 2nd picture), and along the matching (underside) face.