Arabesque Messenger Bag {Tutorial}
Our family loves to swim and have been visiting the pool lately. When we are finished, we put our wet suits and towels in a fabric bag to bring them home.
I had extra arabesque quatrefoil duct tape left over from our duct tape wallet and thought it would be perfect to use to make a messenger bag with my teenager. Now when we come home, we can put all the wet suits and towels on the clothesline and just wipe down the messenger bag for tomorrow’s swim.
Supplies
Duct tape – arabesque
Duct tape – silver
Ruler
Scissors
We started by making duct tape “fabric”. We laid out a piece of the arabesque design, sticky side up, and placed a piece of silver duct tape over it, offset by about a quarter of an inch. Our bag will be 12 inches across, but we tried to make the two pieces longer then that. We then flipped over the two pieces and added another piece of arabesque tape, making sure to overlap. We folded over the first quarter inch fold created in the overlap.
We just kept adding more and more stripes of both tapes, flipping it over and adding, until we had a duct tape “fabric” that was roughly 34 inches x 12 inches. When we got to the end, we tapped over the last quarter inch extra fabric to seal our edge.
We trimmed off any access to make a nice clean line on the sides.
We put aside the body of the bag to work on the sides. We made the side “fabric” from overlapping the silver duct tape with the arabesque design until we had two side stripes that were 9 1/2 x 4 inches.
We measured 9 1/2 inches off our main fabric and taped on the stripes to each side.
We then cut the silver duct tape in half and used each on a side to tape it to the main body, creating a bag shape.
To make the shoulder strap, we made a “fabric” stripe the same way as our side fabrics. It was just thinner and longer.
We added the shoulder strap to the top of the messenger bag.
We added a few more pieces of silver tape inside the bag to reinforce the gym abuse it will take and we were ready to go.
If you enjoyed this arabesque messenger bag duct tape tutorials, be sure to stop by our other duct tape DIY crafts-
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