Jigsaw Pouch Bag

I still had a lot of jigsaw left from my jigsaw bag cover project, so I decided to use another section on another bag, except this time I made the bag from scratch.

Like before, I covered my chosen jigsaw section with sticky back plastic.

I placed the jigsaw on a piece of black fabric and folded the sides over to create a frame around the jigsaw. I'm super impressed with myself that I managed to get the corners to fold with that diagonal line.

I then sewed it all in place.

Then it was time to construct the bag. I used black plasticy fabric for the remaining sides.

Trying to figure out which order I should sew the bag, make the lining and add the zip made my brain hurt. But I got there in the end! Aside from a bit of a wonky zip it turned out pretty great.

I went for bright orange for the lining as I thought black would have been too safe an option, so I picked something that would match the bright colours of the jigsaw image.

There's still jigsaw sections left so expect even more jigsaw projects in the future. I am am getting a lot for the £1.50 I paid for it.

Jigsaw Bag Cover

On one of my trips to the Scrap Store I bought this plain black bag. They were selling them for only £1.

The front flap zips off from the top which was going to come in handy with what I had planned for it.

That's where this jigsaw came in.

I had the idea to cover the front of the bag with a jigsaw, or portion of a jigsaw. So I searched round a few charity shops and decided on this scene. I almost got one of the castle at Disneyland, but unfortunately the dimensions weren't right.

After doing the jigsaw - which was the part of this project that took the longest - I set about picking which part of the jigsaw I wanted to put on the bag. I printed out a photo of the jigsaw as it was easier to see which section would look best on a smaller scale.

I cut a piece of sticky back plastic - my new favourite thing - and laid it over the section of jigsaw.

I unstuck the extra pieces, cut off some of the sticky-out bits and then folded over the sides of the plastic.

I roughly glued the jigsaw onto the bag flap and put another piece of plastic on top for extra protection. Then I sewed the two bits of plastic to the fabric. I also added some black trim around the edge to frame the picture.

All that was left was to reattach the flap to the rest of the bag. High-five handy zip!

I'm really happy with the way this turned out.

Because the jigsaw is made up of little pieces the bag flap still has some flexibility.

Now, what to do with the rest of the jigsaw?