Recycling Pieces of Unused Fabrics [Waste] to Useful Product

You may be surprised as to how I used different pieces of fabrics that are rendered useless or seen as waste products to make what's called a Tote bag used by ladies who are students in different colleges. Those selling these bags use denim materials to make them neat and clean for usage by these students. They also design it in a classic way. But 'miner' is different because it's conceptual, and do you know that I learnt this from the learning challenge last week?

I had to apply it. This is real recycling because I didn't purchase any jean material to use for this purpose. I combined a lot of waste fabrics together to make something unique, and it came out as a bag to use for a special purpose, which I would say Modelling. Nowadays, people wear rugs and call it fashion because they make it fashionable. It's their way of appreciating the usefulness of waste. Now, watch me as I turn something useless into something useful.

The materials needed for my patching and recycling processes were the following:

• pieces of denim fabric from two old rug jeans

• a scissor

• sewing machine and iron

• measuring tape and chalk

I took my dad's trash and looked for spoilt fabrics to use. Luckily for me, I was able to get two spoilt Jean materials, which he disposed of because customers thought of getting a new one after the process. So I took the trash bag and brought out pieces of jean or denim fabrics that were condemned.

• I then used my scissors to piece the fabric and trim it well to come out like a plain material. For the waist, I had to use it as my hands for the bag. So I did trim it very well to look nice and neat. From the pictures below, you can see me arrange two different jean pieces on the floor for sewing.

• This was the main waste transformation to something useful. So I thought of joining all the pieces together so it would come out as a straight, plain jean material. I was sharing a sewing machine with my dad, which made it difficult to actually achieve this at a faster pace. I joined them and weaved the edges so that the rough fabrics won't show even when the bag is turned to the wrong side after finishing. The weaving was to make it look neat. From the pictures, you can attest that it wasn't that straight after all. Don't worry, you'll see me perform magic in this. It was curved and straight in some way, and the pieces were visible. We also had some visible gaps that needed to be sealed.

• I sealed it with my sewing machine and then measured 4 inches of plain cotton material for the sides. I would have sewn it together, but i wanted to do it just as it was done in the challenge. After the measurement of 4 inches × 10 inches, I gave the bag a measurement in terms of length and breadth, and that was the magic I used in making the bag straight rather than curved. I made allowances too for sewing the cotton fabrics together. This was after I folded the long piece together to align. It was looking like a vase bag, but I had to make it straight with the bias.

• After marking the length and breadth with my chalk and tape, I sew the cotton from the wrong side on the front pieces of the bag so that it will be easy to turn it to a perfect side. And as you can see, the bag tried to attain a perfect shape, compared to how it looked at first. The edges of the joint cotton were looking rough. So I had to press it with my iron for the best result. I also pressed the jean material together for the best result as well.

• The handles of the bag were important for the design to come out. Using the two jean waist pieces, I joined them to the back side of the bag for the best result. I did measure the space this would fit properly so that it won't have to appear longer than the other. I did the same for the other side and made my pockets available in front of the bag. I didn't want to put it in my pocket, but it came as an afterthought.

This is my tote bag, which happens to be the finished product
	This is a picture of me using the bag
	Picture of me sewing the bag

This creativity won't go to waste because it's definitely a masterpiece of creativity. This will help reduce waste fabrics in shops if it can produce something beautiful and useful for the tailors themselves, as they feel these fabrics have no use anymore. So I think I'd venture into this line and make stuff out of it for commercial purposes.