We did not get to see our son's wife and son at Christmas Eve, as our grandson had been sick with a high fever for a couple of days prior. I got a little more time, then, to finish up a few things for my DIL However, our younger daughter felt a bit under the weather a couple of days after our gathering and it turned out she has COVID, after 3 years of avoiding it! I am the only sibling of my family who has not had it yet, amazingly. Luckily, I am not working this week.
I had leftover Windham fabrics from the Sewtopia challenge--my sister gave me her set. I decided to make reusable gift bags for my DIL. She is very consumer-conscious, and a minimalist who avoids having lots of "things" around. These fabrics were right up her alley, I thought.
I had already made her a mug mat/hotpad. The tall fabric bag on the left was my trial effort and I did not do the boxed corners correctly on one end. I'll keep that one! The remainder came out very well. I used a tutorial from Sew Crafty Me. I cut my pieces 9x12". My boxed corners came out a lot better on this set. I did not have any ribbon or cording suitable on hand, so went to my local fabric store today, wearing my N95 mask. I found some striped blue and white cording that I thought would work well.
I bought 5 yards of the cording, which was very inexpensive. Hopefully it will hold up to some washing and use. If not, it is easily replaced through the casings. Another tutorial I perused did French seams for the bags, but I just used pinking shears on these, as they won't likely get heavy use.
This pic was taken only 20 minutes later!
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Sorry to hear that family members are under the weather. We too have made it three years free of Covid though it seems to be all around us. I guess we all just have to keep wearing masks, sanitizing hands and staying away from people... or at least out of public places... It is getting to be a tiresome routine though... Stay healthy!
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