Old lady's fashion?

My daughter once returned from a trip with one of these snap fasteners as a gift. I went through a whole set of emotions when she presented me with it: Being pleased that she thought of me and even spent money; wondering, why she believed that I needed some of these old-fashioned clasps I would not ever use myself; being thrilled that she considered that I could and would do something with it.
Well, the piece went into my storage cabinet and just came in handy, when I wondered how to proceed with the piece of crocheted one-way nets, and rummaged through my collections in the search for inspiration.
And the best is -  my daughter liked the outcome. She would want different colours for such a clutch, but she would use it.
The lining was made from Indian cotton, by the way. I once had the chance to visit India on business and was taken to a sari shop by my colleagues. All this many-meter-long pieces of fabric, silk and cotton - this was seamstresses heaven!

Just make a rectangle

One should think that it is fairly easy to sew a straight form especially when one is working on a template styrofoam base having the desired size. Not so here - since I combined different types of one-way nets, some of them stretched and pulled and brought in a mind of their own. I consider myself an experienced seamstress, but I ended up struggling to get the second  part at least somewhat similar to the first. Not that I minded - it was fun working on the solution to the problem. The upholstery fabric left-overs I found in a thrift shop were just the inspiration I needed. The shoulder strap's dedication was to be a belt for a dress, but it never made it. They sold them by the bucket load in the same shop.