Upcycled Military Uniform Tote {Part 2}

Now that our renovation has slowed, I finally have a bit of time to do other things.  First was to get back into blogging because I have neglected my blog, but I have finally (sorta) gotten my blog the way I wanted, so now it's back to sewing.

I have decided to finish one of my (many) WIPs (work in progress), I chose the Upcycled Military Uniform Tote (Read Part 1  here) that I started a few months ago.

Part 2 will be about tote closure, handles, and putting it all together.

Let's take a look at the finished product!!!!

Now Let's see how I finished it.





First, I have decided on the handles, I have a couple of collars from BDU shirts that I could use as the tote handles.

After careful unstitching the collar

Then, onto the tote closure, I have decided to use a cuff of a BDU shirt.

Separate the buttons and button hole like so

Iron them flat and sew the seams shut.

Now, onto sewing everything together.

First, sew the lining at the sides and bottom, right sides together, then box corner it.

Then I sewed one pocket from a military shirt and the buttons onto the lining right side.

Then sewed the other button onto the tote front

Sewed the button hole part to the tote back

Then sewed the handles onto the tote

Here is the tote (without the lining) after sewing everything on it.

Now sewed the lining onto the tote, I like the lining peeking out a little bit.

TaDa, it is done!!!!!   Tote front

Tote Back

I made this reversible

There you have it, easy project!