Friday 16 January 2009

The joy of fusing

Today I had a long list of errands and work I wanted to get done before we have a few days away next week....
Unfortunately I got sucked into rummaging around in the cupboard under the stairs to find some plastic bags after reading this tutorial on Etsy. Once you start fusing, it can become difficult to stop. By lunchtime I had a large pile of pieces of fused plastic bag all ready to be made into exciting things.

So, this afternoon I whipped up a bag with some fused Waitrose and Co-op bags and some black canvas handles. Not perfect by any means, but not bad for a first attempt!

Now it's nearly half past four and I still haven't done anything on my 'to do' list today, but I do have a new and useful bag!

Perhaps even more exciting that fusing plastic bags together are these - Penguin stamps!

2 comments:

inkysquid said...

This is a great idea. Thanks for posting! LMK if you want any American shopping bags to try this with - we get lots of "have a nice day" and "i <3 NY" bags that would be fun to incorporate into something like this.

Teena Vallerine said...

Nope. I think for me, the bag gets it over the stamp -just! t.x