in the bag

I’ve been working on stock for my Christmas stall.

I have a cunning plan involving brooches made from vintage fabric.

They are going to be rather special, each one unique and completely handmade (of course). But more on those later.

I have been working on packaging for them.

Little drawstring bags.

I tried the fabric above first. It’s lightweight – too much so for cushions. I thought it would make a pretty bag.

Unfortunately it frays like a very-easily-frayed thing.

Which makes it something of a ‘mare to sew.

So I hunted through my stash and remembered this lovely Alice Apple cotton, from Spoonflower.

Much easier! And very cute.

Though I think I’ll go for ribbon ties, rather than those rather stiff bias binding ones.

I used this very handy tutorial to make the bags, scaled down to tiny-sized.

It took a couple of practice runs to get the method completely sorted  (and I dispensed with the french seams), but I think now I have it in the bag…