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This is the first inofficial web-preview via Mowecam of the IKEABagHack.

The IKEABagHack is a hack of the famous IKEA bags that serve as shopping baskets inside IKEA stores. Outside the stores these bags are widely used by young people to transport great amounts of laundry and/or emtpy bottles.

The basic idea behind this hack is to transform a huge inconvenient bag into a small fashionable bag. This should not be achieved by complex cuts, but by folding the IKEA bag. (The working title was iFolder). Only two straight cuts have to be made.

Instructions:

• Remove the bottom of the original bag by opening the seam.
• Also remove the seam on the side.
• Fold the bag (aka the long piece of blue plastic) in half. The handles of each side should be opposite of each other.
• After the process of folding two seams have to be made on the left hand side and ond the right hand side of the handles.
• Then remove the two loose remaining pieces behind one of the seams. (This is the ugly but quite simple part of cutting.)
• Turn the cloth through the open pocket in the middle and add another seam at the bottom.
• Twist the bag completely and your done.

The bag has three pockets that are big enough to hold the essentials of the semi-digital urban coffeehouse visitor: A small laptop, a power supply and a magazine.

A big thank you to Carolin, the goddess of sewing-machines.

[UPDATE] I published some picture of the IKEABagHack at flickr.
[UPDATE2] A lot of readers of the IKEABagHack kept on asking if we sell it. For those are not familiar with DIY this is your chance to get your BagHack.