Clothespin bag ideas
By Heather on Friday, March 3rd, 2006
I’d like to make have a clothespin bag. As I am discovering that I am agonizingly slow at hand-sewing (no machine here!) I’m still getting ideas for sewing, but I swear I don’t want to actually have to *do* this. Alas I may be forced to.
It seems most the ideas involve a wooden or wire hanger. All our seem to be plastic. Here is a pattern for a rather droopy clothespin bag with a wooden hanger using a kitchen towel. Another common type I’ve seen is made using a baby dress.
I’d like it to stay a bit more closed than the droopy one, I think. I think I might just try and find a wooden hanger, and make a simple rectangle with a split down the middle. And maybe make it look like a dress. However, a hole down the front of a dress might be weird.
I was trying to brainstorm different shapes: animals, fruits, flowers, houses, and came up with the ladybird idea. But, I might have to make a structure for it. And I’m not sure, but it might have to be heavily interfaced to keep the shape.
March 17th, 2006 at 4:45 am
you could always start with a wooden hanger, drill holes on either end of it, and then use a wire hanger (opened up) attached through the holes to make the “outline” of the body, which might give you enough support, and you could tack it to the fabric to keep it still.
another idea - a leaf, maybe sideways, which would have the right shape to hold itself together if hung over a hanger. (and could be embellished nicely) tres zakka…
if you wanted to get ambitious you could take the metal hanger part out of the wooden hanger, drill a new hole for it so it’s offset, and that could give you better support for something asymetrical like a bird.
don’t mind me
it’s the headcold taking over.