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Tutorial: Add character to a plain bag with vintage fabric

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Tutorial: Add character to a plain bag with vintage fabric
Tutorial: Add character to a plain bag with vintage fabric

This bag started its life as a plain cross body bag.  Ashlee from My So Called Crafty Life covered the flap with vintage fabric to give it character, and she shares a tutorial showing how she did it.  It’s not as hard as you would think, and you don’t have to sew through the leather.

Click below for her tutorial:

Easy Revamped Crossbody Bag, by My So Called Crafty Life

[photo from My So Called Crafty Life]

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