Gift/party bags continued

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This year as usual we had a last-minute rush, and remembering the usual stressful fiddlyness of the paper bag-making, combined with the fact that I had been passing all my gardening magazines on to an interested friend so had fewer pretty pictures to use, as well as seeing some fabric gift bags, I had an ‘Aha!’ moment. Keep something for long enough and you will find a use for it, they say… here was the perfect use for two pairs of old jeans I had saved ‘just in case’. A bit of rummaging around in my sewing cabinet yielded some useful pieces of tape and cord and some coloured felt. Then it was literally the work of minutes to sew the top and bottom of each bag, and attach a strap of some sort. Meanwhile Little One designed and cut out a felt flower shape and together we attached one to each bag with a simple X in embroidery thread. I hoped these would prove useful enough that they wouldn’t be thrown out immediately. Each one was big enough to hold the end-of-party gifts – a paperback book (from a bargain set), some fruity shower gel and a small packet of sweets. Of course it helps that the party will only involve six friends, I’m not sure I would be so keen if I had to make 30! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.