On one of my trips to oriental bazaars I came across a knitted carpet made of different colored fabrics… I found it to be an excellent material to make a bag and the rug did not cost me more than 2€! Check out the tut on how I made this “Rug Clutch”.
Materials:
- Woven rug (there are various sizes, purchase a small one to make a clutch bag)
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Thick interfacing
- Lining
- Button or click button
- Iron
- Optional *: Zipper and rings
Process:
1. Iron the interfacing to the carpet.
2. Cut the lining the same size as the carpet, cut a pocket and sew it to the lining.
3. Join the outer edges of the carpet and sew them together, leave a piece in one side longer for the flap.
4. Sew the bottom corners of the bag and turn it inside out.
5. Sew the lining together in the sides and sew the bottom corners of the lining.
6. Put the lining inside the bag and fix with pins.
7. Fix the lining to the edges of the bag with pins.
8. Sew the corners where you fixed with pins.
9. OPTIONAL *:
a) Sew a loop at each corner of the bag to attach a chain.
b) Sew a zipper under the flap to the lining.
10. Sew a button in the center of the bag to close the flap.
You will have a colorful and fun bag that will look great with all your basics. You can also buy a larger rug to make a “Tote bag”.
I hope you get inspired and this encourages you to try a DIY with this cool rugs!
Buenísima idea, me encanta como queda. ¡¡quien diría que era una alfrombrilla!!
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me encanta como quedan los clutch con estas alfombritas…..Ay que te lo robo!!
Me parece impresionante 🙂 Queda chulísimo y súper original, un trabajo que merece la pena desde luego!
Muchos besitos
Dare To HAPPEN
geniale, anche io mi sono fatta la borsetta con il tappeto se vuoi vederla è quì http://jananapa.blogspot.it/2012/08/mia-nuova-borsa-colorata.html
Thank you Paola!! Your DIY is really cool too!! thanks for the link! 😀
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I might not be making the purse but I got an idea about harvesting the strips to use as t-shirt yarn by looking at your purse. Wonder if it would work. 🙂
Great idea! This whould be a Cool project Too! Thank you! 🙂
Just an update. I went ahead and bought a rug to experiment with. Turned out it wasn’t such a great idea – the strips weren’t similar in size, some were too thin, some too thick. Ha ha.I tried. 🙂
awwww… too bad… but it’s great you tried.!!! sometimes you have to try like 10 times before something good comes out… Maybe you can apply this technique with another type of rug! thank’s so much for the comments Hani!! and food luck!!! 😀
Muito bacana!!
Love it! Jannah, xxx
Estas alfombras son lo máaaas <3 #tesorosdelchino
AAAH! I love this!!!! What a great idea!!
Hola!!! claro que me animo, de hecho lo tengo hecho desde hace unos años, te dejo el enlace, la verdad es que el resultado es buenisimo y ni cuesta dinero ni tiempo…
http://www.yoymiscosotas.com/2011/10/faldas-tubo-y-diy-clutch.html
Un beso
Lau
¡¡Hola Laura!! Que fuerte!!!! ¡¡¡es casi el mismo bolso!!! Te ha quedado genial! me he paseado por tu blog y tienes cositas muy monas! te sigo desde ya! Mil gracias por dejarme tu comentario y tu blog!
besitossss 🙂
Where can you buy rugs like that from?
Hi Markeeta! You can usually find them at oriental bazars or Chinese shops 😉
Que pasada! Me encanta este DiY 😀 Feliz finde!!
Un DiY sencillo y baratísimo!
❁☀❁☼ DiY-Monas de Seda☀❁☼☀❁
This is so fantastic. I am probably going to make something similar soon!
Those rugs would make great “sit-upons” like we had in Girl Scouts for taking camping and sitting on the grass for a a picnic. You could also recycle into a re-usable grocery bag. Great idea-got me thinking.
yes!! cool idea Rosemary!!! Thanks for sharing it 🙂 definitely trying that!! 😉
Después de ver el resultado que me ha encantado, me he animado a hacerlo. Me podrías ayudar orientándome un poco con las medidas???. Gracias.
Hola Ana! Pues la verdad es que he hecho el bolso de la misma medida en la que ya viene la alfombra. Hay varios tamaños de estas alfombras. Yo escogí una que es mas o menos tamaño individual . 🙂