One day we were visited by an interior designer who was on his way to the tip which is just around the corner from us. His car was full of out of date sample books and off cuts of material. We also hated the idea that all of this would be just thrown away so we said we would take it all off his hands! Sharon, our sewing teacher, was delighted when she saw all of the lovely colours and patterns. We all put our heads to gether and came up with the idea of a bag made of patches of material. As we always have to have a tea connection we decided that the bag would have a real hand painted tea bag on it plus the handles, which are plastic tubing, would be stuffed with rooibos tea held in place with tea bags. The whole process of making the bag is quite time consuming, especially stuffing the handles, but we are happy to say that they are very popular.