This document provides instructions for making a purse out of two plastic bottle bottoms and a zipper. The instructions are: 1) Cut the bottoms off of two plastic bottles and trim off excess material. 2) Cut out an auxiliary construction guide and tape it to the bottle bottom edge. 3) Pierce stitching holes in the bottom along the guide. 4) Remove the guide. 5) Open the zipper and sew it around the first bottle bottom, overlapping the zipper ends.

1. PET BOTTLE PURSE E
by ZITTA SCHNITT OPEN FRE
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Instruction Tutorial v 1.2 DESIGN
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HOW TO BUILT A PET BOTTLE PURSE ...STEP-BY-STEP
Following this introduction you can build a „PET Bottle Purse“ out of two bottoms of PET bottles and a zipper. You can
use the box as a coin purse or as storage-box.
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# Tools: # Materials:
1 knife 2 PET bottles 0,5 l
1 small pair of scissors 1 Zipper - 20 cm
1 thin needle 1 adhesive tape
1 thick sharp needle 1 Nylon thread
zipp-fabric
start
1. First, cut off the bottoms of the bottles zipp-start
approximate, afterwards cut off the excess
material, along the burr with the small
sissor.
*
2. Cut out the auxiliary construction and
stick it to the edge of the cut-out bottom
with adhesive tape.
3. Use the thick needle to pierce the
bottom, where the auxiliary construction
marks the stitching-holes with dots. For
holding the needle us a combination pliers.
4. Remove auxiliary construction.
Zipp-end
5. Before sewing, open the zipper. Start to stich
with the small needle, 3cm after the zipp-start *
and sew the zipper all around the first bottom. zipp-fabric
end
6. Attention! Don‘t complete sewing the whole circumference,
before finishing, overlap the zipp-fabric end, thats how you
build a nice PET :)
Auxiliary Construction
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