Some projects are beautiful, flights of fancy or just plain gorgeous. Other projects are well, utilitarian? These definitely falls into the useful group and is made very so slightly cuter by the use of Japanese cat print canvas.
We needed a peg bag and rather than buy one I thought I’d make one. Taking a plastic adults size coat hanger (many use kids coat hangers but thats only useful if you have kid coats hangers lying about you need to use up?) I traced around it and then played with proportions till I got something that looked about right.
I cut the back, lower front and then when it came to the upper front realised I wasn’t quite going to have enough fabric. A little bit of patching later and hey presto enough fabric.
Super fast to come together and then for a bit of adding prettiness to such a utilitarian object I added some sashiko stitching to make the patchwork look deliberate, to hold the upper and lower fronts together and around the neck of the coat hanger to hold it in place.
Am so proud of it, such a simple job and yet it does it’s task perfectly and the cat fabric makes it adorable.
Pattern: Self Drafted
Fabric: from stash originally from Miss Matatabi
Changes: none