Hello everyone!
As Halloween is right around the corner, I was looking for a cute yet practical trick or treat bag. In stores around here, you can consider yourself lucky though if you find any halloween bags at all, but those just seem way too small most of the time. So I decided to make one myself. Literally decided to do so two hours ago, and here it is, along with a little tutorial on how you can make one yourself!
You will need:
* Fleece fabric in white, orange and yellow
* a sewing machine
How it's done:
Cut one strip from each fabric. Make the strips twice as long as you want the bag to be wide and about a third of the height you want your bag to be. I eyeballed it out by folding the fabrics in half. My strips were about 1 meter by 20 cm (40 by 8 inches).
Lay the yellow and the orange strip together good side to good side and sew along one of the long corners. Lay the white strip onto the orange one good side to good side and sew the long side of the white strip to the orange strip.
Fold the long side of your now combined three strips in half good side to good side and sew the side closed from yellow to orange to white. Sew the bottom (white) closed.
Pinch the corner at the bottom of the bag so that the bottom seam meets the side seam and sew across so that you can cut off a little triangle (I've sewn about five cm (about two inches) into the bottom seam). Do the same on the other side (pretend there was a seam at the side).
Turn your bag right side out and fold over about two cm of the yellow top edge to the inside. Sew it in place all around the top (it looks a lot neater than leaving the raw edge to show).
Cut two strips from each color to make the handles. My strips were about 60 by 3 cm (24 by 1.5 inches).
Stack a yellow, white and orange strip and sew them together at the top with a few stitches so they won't unravel. Braid them. Once you're at the bottom of the strips, stack the ends and again sew them together so they won't unravel.
Repeat for the second handle.
Pin the handles in place where you want them to be and sew them on carefully (they're pretty bulky so go very slowly). I've placed the seam onto the seam that I made for the top edge.
Cut away the excess where the thin strips were sewn together so that it'll look a bit neater.
And that's it!
I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial and got inspired to make a cute and easy Halloween trick or treat bag (with lots of space for the treats..!). Have a nice day and happy Halloween!
This is such an excellent tutorial, and I like the vivid colours on the magnificent Halloween bag which you’ve produced. Apart from its aesthetic appearance, the bag looks very practical in terms of being easy to carry. It also looks like it would store an enormous amount of candy which is always a bonus too.
ReplyDeleteThe instructions are also amazing and your attention to detail is truly commendable. This post really was a treat to read so thank you very much for sharing it.