Upcycling:bag for clothes-pins made from an Indian dress

Today’s blog post is about upcycling textiles and old clothes again. More precisely, we made a bag for clothes-pins from an old Indian dress.

The dress was a bit difficult to upcycle because it had embroidery all around its neck opening and along the cuffs of its sleeves as well as an opening with no buttons, which we did not want to destroy, but which were difficult to incorporate into a more ‘ordinary’ upcycling object. So we came up with the idea to leave the embroidery with the non-closable opening as it is and turn it into a small bag for clothes-pins, for which just such an opening is ideal. 🙂 Since we love turtles and tortoises, we designed the bag as a turtle. 😀