snack bags tutorial
I made those reusable snack bags this afternoon and thought I’d do a bit of a tutorial in case anyone else out there wanted to give them a go.
I went to my favourite fabric shop on Magill Rd, Simply Fabrics. The woman there always remembers me and my children. I found this gorgeous cupcake fabric and co-ordinating dotted fabric, so in spite of my large fabric stash at home, I had to have it. I also bought some cute apple fabric to use at a later date.
I got 25cm of each fabric and cut it into squares.
I turned over the edge as such.
I use paperclips to attach the velcro, much easier than using pins. That’s Willow’s hand, not mine!
Once that row was sewn, I sewed the other edge of the velcro down.
Both sides of the bags, wrong side together.
All of the pieces. I was doing this factory production style.
The bag, right sides together, ready to be sewn.
The first bag sewn up.
Flipped around the right way.
You can see that I just overlocked the edges straight up.
All of the bags sewn up, ready to be finished off.
Sorry for the bad photo, demonstrating threading the overlocker thread back in.
The finished stack.
This was a great project to do since I haven’t done any sewing in a long time. Very easy, no patterns, no complicated cutting, only straight lines to sew/overlock. If you didn’t have an overlocker you could try a french seam, but it would be hard with the thickness of the velcro.
I really liked using paperclips – much easier than using pins. It took me about 2 hours to do 5 small bags. They would fit 3-6 biscuits, a good serving of cereal or dried fruit and nuts. I hope that this tutorial was easy to understand!
