I had learnt how to do this at the arts centre last year when they had an open day and you could sign up for several free classes - I chose this one as it looked like fun and seemed simple to do - which it was!
I'm going to save my hands and do a copy paste from the post at deviant art to show how I made this.
What I did:
- I took a lot of plastic bags from shops and cut out shapes I liked the look of or colours that matched what I had going.
- I took a large plastic bag to use as the base and cut off the side seams and handles.
- I took all my bits to the ironing board I'd already previously covered with greaseproof paper and turned the iron onto a low setting.
- I then placed another sheet of greaseproof paper on top and started ironing the layers together, trying to take care not to melt the platic too much but also not too little.
- The resulting sheet was trimmed straight along the sides and one edge and the top edge that was to be the flap was cut to echo the shapes along that edge. (which is why it looks a bit crooked - It doesn't help that I'd slightly overheated the plastic there lol)
- Then I sewed some decorative lines on the plastic using black thread.
- A strap was made from a thick red plastic bag that I'd cut 2 strips from the base without cutting the side seams - I cut one side open on each and cut the folds of the base of the bag so that I ended up with 2 long strips that were 4 layers thick each.
- I placed them on each other and sewed them together along the sides.
- I sewed the side seams of the bag closed and, by folding the bag so that the side seam was against the middle of the base I sewed a line to make the base of the bag.
- Last of all I added the strap to the bag.
Size: 11 1/2 x 13 1/2" / 29.2 x 34.2 and will take an average sized laptop.
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