I believe it was Kirstie Alley who said that elastic waist bands were how big girls got bigger. Yup yup.
After losing the weight, I promised myself I would never, ever, wear these outfits again. Problem was - I loved, loved, loved the fabric and could NOT bring myself to throw them out. Even one pair of pants whose fabric had started to fray. So those became the first experiment. I wish I had a before copy of the actual pants, but I'm pretty sure a friend of mine has a picture of me in them. So, once I get my hands on it, I'll post it so there is a record of the true before to go with these afters:
Purse Front (side 1):
Purse Back (side 2)
I only used 1/2 of each of 2 panels from the pants. I still have two other decorative panels and the remnants of the two I used to figure out what to do with.
I'm not completely finished. I will have to remove a couple stitches and fix some imperfections and haven't attached the strap. Lucky elastic waist-band - YOU shall have the glory of being repurposed as the strap. Congrats!
While I think I did okay my first time out trying to construct a purse, there were some valuable lessons learned. First and foremost - lining should probably be attached before stitching up the purse. Just sayin'.
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