Project Bags

On Sunday my friend Amber and I started a project. We wanted to attempt to make some of our own project bags for keeping knitting projects in. We had purchased the fabric a while back and were finally ready to tackle it. Neither of us really had any idea what we were doing, but she does have basic sewing skills so we just went for it.

Our fabrics:

We ended up only using the pink fabric and the grey floral - we still have the brown floral left for later.

Our plan was drawstring bags with the grey floral outside and the pink fabric on the inside. We measured everything out and cut our pieces.

We made a couple two-sided bags and they came out really cute:

We also made some tree-sided bags with a triangular bottom. Again we were planning drawstring closures.

Well, unfortunately, the drawstring plan didn't work out. Our fabric was too thick. It was super tough to pull the drawstring AND the bags didn't even come close to closing all the way.

The next day we bought snaps and a tool to apply them with.

It worked out pretty well! We would have done zippers, but there was no way to make that work with the three-sided bag. It all worked out in the end... they may be a little rough around the edges but they're usable and pretty cute... we like them!