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Shag Bag From Recycled T-Shirts

Step 8Add strap

Add strap
Cut and stretch three (or six, or 9) long strips of t-shirt material, and braid them into a strap.  Test it on your bag against your body for length - remember that the weight of the bag will Sew over each end to prevent it from unraveling, and then sew it firmly* into the side of your bag.

*Firmly = several runs up and down the strap to make sure there's no chance of it ripping out.  You may use straight or zigzag stitches.
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Jan 21, 2011. 8:42 AMkathmonkey says:
Oops - sentence error :)

I guess you meant to say:
"Test it on your bag against your body for length - remember that the weight of the bag will"...
... stretch it over time :D

(Sorry, I'm really pedantic about that sort of thing - please don't take offence because I don't mean any!)

It's an awesome 'ible, I'll be making this as soon as I'm reunited with my t-shirt stash!

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