um, not exactly "DIY"-ing the tote itself, but the fact that i'm "decorating" it with my drawing, by both medium - hand drawn with fabric pens (not too successful, sob sob) and ironed on with transfer paper (slightly better results)
born the panda prototype!
pandas drawn by moi and gum with fabric pens. as u can see, we keep smudging the cloth n the blacks aren't "black enough" (oh n we were testing out 2 types of black pen too...so...not exactly pretty!)
fabric pens i got from vancouver & hk used on panda...none of them work well with my fingers :(
enhancing panda prototype & creating banana skin prototype with transfer paper <--slightly more managable, but still leaves some yucky yellow marks on the bag :((
added little details to panda
n so, by judging my own output quality, i say i still hv a looooooooooong way to go before i can go ahead n pursue my career plan c, which is to rely on selling pretty pretty bags n gds online and earn a living on it!! :P
plus need to find a way to lower the production cost...these transfer papers are expensive!!