This bag came in my MBBE goodie bags and is from Guinot. It’s black with little glitter sparklies ^_^ I am not a fan of clutch bags, I think they are kind of pointless… I mean they don’t make carrying stuff any easier they just give me a hand cramp XD So glue time!

So in about 10 minutes I turned it into this:

I started with the white bow that came off one of my Bodyline shoes and added some black velvet ribbon to hide the thread.

Then I glued lace around the outside. Of course you could stitch it in place but this bag is quite thick so glue was easier.

I pleated the lace at the corners so it sat well.

Glued the little bow in place…

Then with some more velvet ribbon I added a little strap by gluing (and anchoring with a stitch) it into the inside.

Super easy! All done!

Now I have a cute evening bag which is practical and matches my outfit ^_^ Win! What do you guys do with these kinds of bags?

Look at the lovely colours, it reminds me of yummy candy 😀

This is what it looked like after I balled it. I couldn’t ask for a more “me” colour!

And this is what I made out of half of it… a pair of very frilly fingerless gloves 😀 I searched Ravelry for patterns but I couldn’t settle on something that I really liked so I took a very basic lace stitch and made a standard fingerless glove with ruffles ^_^

Now I’m going to try and show you how I made them. Please be kind because this is the first knitting/crochet pattern I’ve ever written so it may make no sense at all. I’m more of a visual person so I prefer to just knit and see if it looks right rather than following patterns to the letter but you girls keep asking for patterns so here goes nothing!

Stretch out your plastic cap to find out how wide it is. You need to cut out a circle of fabric with that diameter plus a few inches for seam allowance.

Now a note on choosing fabric, because this is going to be getting wet often you will need to choose a fabric which dries very easily or else it will get moldy! I am using toweling. This is my circle:

Now thread your needle and with the edge folded under, stitch your fabric into the elastic of the cap. You will need to stretch out the elastic as you sew it in. This can be a bit tricky when you only have two hands so what I do is use a notebook or something solid like that to hold it stretched while I’m sewing.

When you finish you should end up with something like this:

Now this is where you can do one of two things… Either go nuts with the cute and add a frill to the edge here like a vintage styled one or move straight on to the lace. I personally find frills at edge to be cute but not practical because the water catches in them so I went straight to the lace.

Sew one edge of your eyelet lace around the very edge of the elastic.

Then sew on the other side. It should hide all of the edges of the pink in a nice little sandwich.

Lastly thread your ribbon through and tie in a bow. You will need to stretch it out and make sure there is enough ribbon there to go around your head.

You’re done! Ok so there is a limit to how cute you can actually make a shower cap, no matter what they always look pretty silly. But it’s Winter so it’s a very necessary item… and I think this is an improvement on the original ^_^

Hope you enjoyed and let me know if any of you give the cute shower cap a try! ^_^

So what I used was:

• Pink gloves from Kmart
• Rose lace
• 2x lace collars
• Matching ribbon

Have you seen these lace collars before? They used to sell them everywhere but I haven’t seen them in a while. I bought them thinking I would put them on a black blouse when I was into Lolita but this seems like a much better use now 😀

So what I did was very very easy… I put on the gloves to make sure where I was sewing was stretched out enough and carefully pinned the collar in place around the top of the wrist.

Because they were meant to be collars the lace flares out and the pattern is more on one side. I pointed this towards the edge where my pinky finger was so they have a cute flare to them.

I stitched it all in place then placed some lace over the top.

When sewing it on make sure to stretch the fabric that way it will stretch enough to fit over your hand.

Lastly I added a nice big fat bow on top because you can never have enough decoration!

Taadaaa!

And there you have it, I didn’t buy anything new, I used up some of my old stash aaand now I have cute gloves ^_^