I’ve made peace with this project, and now I totally love the fused plastic bag idea.

The deal is that I used too many layers of plastic, and that made sewing it all together a little tough. But the project itself is easy-peasy, so if you only use 4 layers of bags (instead of my 8), I think it would work a charm.

Because all of the melted bags seep through differently, the finished bag has a campfire effect and I can’t stop looking at it.

I used these instructions but made up a more detailed tutorials with lots of photos here.