Canvas Tote Bags

Cotton canvas gifted by #Minervadotcom fir review. Thank you. After making the storage cases, I made Laura Ashley Simplicity 9814 #sewingpattern hand bag style totes. Mr W uses his #simplicity9814 every weekend as an #overnightbag. I interfaced the top and bottom of the bags, the hands, and the front and back pockets.

2nd hand: orange (my current favourite colours are cream, yellow and orange - Mr W said "Fallon colours") quilting cotton, Andover fabric. Leftover: the grey cotton canvas and the coral Art Gallery Fabric. Black zips were purchased for making cushion covers a few years ago.

Antique Wood Trunk

After/before antique wood chest/trunk, no lid, torn and chipped veneer, which was glued down and stapled down in places, and I didn't remove the metal. It's expensive to find real wood and cast iron

Hot towel, iron, chisel to remove veneer. Washed. Sand with electric sander. Oak varnish.

Measured sides, sewed a bag with drawstrings from a cotton suiting I had in the attic, cream  with white pinstripe, I like neutrals as they're good for small spaces, everything matches, unisex.