Tutorial Tuesday

A friend of mine asked me to make her teenaged daughters purses for Christmas gifts. She wanted to incorporate their father's military fatigues into the purses, but all the ideas I kept finding online were more like tote bags. I figured tote bags would not be all that trendy. I finally decided, ya know what? Fabric is fabric. Just because it's fatigues does not limit what I can do with it. So I decided to use a great hipster bag tutorial I found online to create the following bag.

The change purse is from noodlehead's zippy wallet tutorial. I incorporated the fatigues into that as well. There were no other modifications except that I added the military patches to the front. I made one set with the zebra print and one with a strip that had lime green, back, hot pink, etc. My camera was broken at the time so I had to take this fabulous picture with my cell phone. Lovely, huh? I was actually able to use pants legs to cut out the material and still have a large shirt's worth of fabric to use when I make a purse for their mom. I am also trying to figure out a way to use the parts of the pant legs that have pockets already attached. Maybe some type of camping bag, or something to carry drawing supplies when out hiking?