316. Star-Patched Jeans

One of my old pairs of jeans acutally had a hole in one knee. (I think, the last time that happened was sometime in primary school...) One evening, an idea struck me and I dug out a star I hade made a couple of weeks ago - from my old shoes... - and decided to use it as patch for the hole.

It took another week or so to finally sit down and start sewing. But by then it was already quite late, I got tired, and so it tool another two days to finally finish it:

Well, the star I actually made is rather uneven and looks like this:

76. Purse With Stars (Side 2)

Okay, it's finished. (No, shops still are closed on Sundays in Germany, but I decided to paint a piece of my white elastic band black...^^)

To be honest, I'm not too happy with this whole thing... It's harder than I thought to make a purse that you can stuff a lot of things into but that still doesn't look completely out of shape when rather empty and flat. Plus, the large purple star turned out to look more like a flower - which isn't a bad thing per se but then I had to think of some other way to put a star on there. So I stitched the five smaller ones... well... let's just say, they're not very exciting. Finally, I intended to secure the edges of the cut ribbon by fusing them slightly with a candle - but I wasn't careful enough and one of the points was suddenly quite a bit shorter. :( (Not on the picture - I took it before this happened.)

Oh, well, whatever... One more new experience. Lucky for me I haven't set my heart on a carreer as tailor or purse designer. ;D

74. Purse With Star (Side 1)

A day of very tedious work for university is over. Every now and then I took a break to work on a little purse made out of a pair of old trousers that had shrunk badly when washed too hot. (The original plan was to mend some clothes, but the purse was just so much more interesting...) It has two sides and the flap on one side is already decorated with a star:

Oh my, I really had no idea how difficult it is to cut a star out of cloth! At least at this small size... So, not very fancy. Maybe I'll find something better for the other side. (That one isn't finished yet. I need a black elastic band to fasten the flap there - which I don't have. I might finish it tomorrow, or that day after that - or after that...)

P.S.: The clothes are mended, too. :)