We’ve made fairly waterproof bags out of material intended for making hot air balloons. Ivybags bought a big lot of offcuts from Cameron Balloons in Bristol and kindly passed some on to us. The fabric is very fine but strong and just about waterproof. Some of those bags had integrated pockets or sachets to fold them away into, like Onyabags.
I’ve tried shower curtains and they were OK, but difficult to sew, especially the final bit of the french seams as the fabric is slipper and “creeps” as you sew.
I’ve sometimes made bags out of duvet covers where I’ve kept the poppers at the top of the bag but you have to be careful when cutting out the fabric so that the poppers don’t occur in the side seams or where you want to bring the handles up, so they’re a bit tricky.
I’m not very good at inserting zips, but I see no reason why you wouldn’t be able to. I try to get the stitching close to the edge of the bag when sewing the handles up into position and you’d need to allow room for the zip and not get too close to the edge.
We’ve made quite a lot of bags with pockets – they’re a good way of brightening up dull bags with a scrap of nice material. I like to put the morsbags label on the pocket before I sew it onto the bag, but don’t always do that.
Giving them out to homeless people with useful things in is a great “good cause”! 😀
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