This design is 8 party bags in 8 different designs and/or colours. On a fat quarter (21 inch) you get just 2 little bags to make. On a full yard you get all 8 bags - plus some extra patterned strips on the wider fabric types, eg for matching handles. Currently displaying a generic rainbow set. Other options are available on request (eg with eggs or pirate skull and crossbones or xmas themed). In my family, there's a tradition of hunting for foil-wrapped chocolate eggs which have been laid, in a somewhat concealed manner, either indoors or outdoors (according to the UK weather!), by some deranged and implausible bunny rabbit (a role now played by me, as one of the surviving senior but non-senile members of the family). These events usually occur in the spring but not necessarily precisely on the equinox or Easter or the May fertility festival. A birthday is another good excuse for a chocolate "egg" hunt. For this purpose, we have some wicker baskets (which are family heirlooms, having been passed down through at least 3 generations). These baskets have a band of different coloured strands around them, interwoven with the plain ones, by which they can be distinguished from each other. This can be important on a competitive version of the egg-hunt, if they have to be set aside for a while and recovered later, after lunch or tea. (The less competitive version, eg for a group of mixed ages, involves careful pre-selection of equal numbers of eggs and then assigning a specific egg colour to each individual or team.) Should another family wish to start off down this route to ancestral insanity, it would be very easy to make little bags from any swatches you may already have purchased (or to use commercial party bags). However, this layout is specifically for making 8 little egg-themed bags (in either tote or draw-string form) - enough for nearly any size of family, plus visiting children or adults who want to join in. To make the bags: • For some design variants you should extend the guide lines into the selvage on either side. This will form either your drawstring turnover or the handles of the bag. • cut out each bag very carefully. For tote bags you should now cut off (and keep!) the white strips for making the handles if you don't have a wide fabric. • Fold the patterned strip for each bag in half and sew up the seams. For a tote bag you may want to use french seams (to improve longevity) which means sewing right sides out first before inverting and sewing back over the original seams to enclose them. For a drawstring bag you're better off with simple seams (possibly edged with zig-zag stitch to avoid fraying) and you need to leave the white band at the top open for threading the strings. • Hem the top. For a tote bag this is simple - 2 small folds inwards and a line of stitches around the circumference to hold the hem. For a drawstring bag you do it in 2 separate halves, leaving a large turnover (ie the whole of that plain white band) to hold the strings. • The tote bag handles are made from the white/coloured strips - 2 short handles per bag or 1 long handle. Fold them in from the edges, along the length, a bit like bias binding and then in half down the middle to trap the fraying edges. You should have a 4-layer thick sandwich, 9" long, requiring a simple (but fiddly!) line of stitches along its length to hold it. Oversew the ends to prevent fraying and attach these firmly to each side of the top of the bag. • Draw-strings can be made from any convenient "wool" (including cotton or artificial versions of wool), thin cord or ribbon. You need 2 lengths of just over 18" each, threaded along each face, through the turnovers at the top of the bag, from different directions - so that there's a knot to pull from each side. Depending on the size of your seams and choice of assembly method, each bag will be about 8 to 8.5 inches wide by approx 9 inches deep. … See my profile index or tags for similar designs: • cutandsew (http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sef?shop_selection=tag&tag=cutandsew)
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Petal Signature Cotton®
Design #1073700Everyday-use cotton for quilting, crafts and apparel
- Estimated shrinkage: 5-6% in length and 2-3% in width
- Perfect for quilting, craft projects, costuming, toys and accessories.
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