My dfg sleeping bag cover

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I purchased this minus zero sleeping bag for my travels. The grey was too bland for my liking so I made a project to personalise it to a unique and practical work of art. It was a challenge as it is huge, opens out to a double size doona.
This wasn’t going to work. But I could see that the flannelette strips had potential. They were the actual width, two and a half metres. I could work with that.
The flannelette was from dfg (days for girls ) sewing group. It was the strip left over from cutting out the liners we sew for the hygiene kits. So each sewing day I would take a few home with me. Slowly I accumulated enough to make a cover for the sleeping bag.
Time to assemble this mismatch of random patterned and plain fabric.
This seemed to work for me. I am always amazed how things fall into place and become something really special and unique in their own right.
This was a very bulky undertaking which made progress slow. When the cover was in one piece I had the challenge of how to best attatch it to the bulky bag. The thickness made it impossible to sew on the machine so it would require hand sewing. I sorted through my button collection which also included mums button collection and had a lovely time reminiscing. Mum wasted nothing and her collection included coat buttons and buttons from past familiar items of clothing, so the sentimental ones were what I wanted to include as quilting buttons to secure the layers together.
Not only was this material taking on it’s own character but this was the perfect opportunity to use up all my collection of sewing cottons/ threads which seem to accumulate over time.
No quick way of doing this, it was going to take time.
At last, all assembled and I’m happy with the result.

This is the better side. Some of the strips were short so needed to have extra material added. Guess this adds to its character/ uniqueness. We all have a better side, lets face it.

So here is the finished article. Ready for my travels. When I look at it I see familiar patterns and combinations that made the many, many liners we sewed to make kits for girls overseas .

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