Jessica at Happy Together has a tutorial for making several different shapes of placemat into cute clutch-style purses. She covers oval, round, and rectangular placemats and how to cut them to make them work. She uses a method to make the clutches we haven’t covered here before, so go check the tutorial out and get some placemat inspiration! [click here for tutorial]
Project Materials:
- Placemat, $1
- Plastic canvas from craft store, $1
- Piece of felt or fabric, on hand
- Velcro, snaps, a vintage pin (to keep clutch closed), on hand
- Sewing stuff
Total: $2 and up
4 Comments
Zakka Life
I really like the idea of making a clutch with the placemat, so clever. Now off to check out the tutorial.
Jessica
You are so sweet :) Thanks for the link, yet again.