So this is one of my favorite things that I've made ever. It all happened in about an hour and a half, with me getting inspired all of a sudden and working furiously until it was finished. Early last week I went to a thrift store and bought a pile of ugly leather jackets, selecting them not for their style but for the materials they were made of -- different colors, textures, etc -- because I want to use them to make jewelry, belts, random crap.
On Friday afternoon, I saw
this fringed Free People purse online and got inspired to turn one of the ugly, oversized coats into a fringed purse. I picked the coat with the most supple leather because I knew I wanted the purse to be slouchy, and I thought I could maybe work some of the lacing detail into the purse. The hardest part was feeding all this leather through my sewing machine. The sewing machine needle even broke at one point; I'm pretty sure it's not meant to do what it did. But I think it was worth it!
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| The fugly coat |
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| The fugly coat's close-up |
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| The new purse, outside my house |
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| The new purse, inside my house |
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| The new purse, on my dining room table, just in case you hadn't seen it styled enough ways. |
this is AWESOME, ellen. you are amazing!
ReplyDeletethat is awesome Ellen. WOW!!! i could never look at a fugly jacket and think bag.
ReplyDeletegood job!!
Wow! that is really an awesome transformation! You are getting to be a leather Pro!!
ReplyDeleteooo what a great restyle!
ReplyDeleteYour fringe is so inspiring me, I'm fixing to go dig in the storage for an old coat I hope I held on to. If not.....off to Goodwill:)
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