Easter Brown Bags

For the season of spring, it is never too much to prepare these dressed-up simple brown bags and gift them to family and friends. I always make simple sugar cookies and decorate them (...or not). Recipe for them here. Recipe for Spring Linzer Cookies: here.

Check my post Easter Table here for decoration inspiration.

Back to the brown bags:

This year I used pastel green and yellow colours, with a hint of purple.

Please, follow the images and your heart for decorating these bags. Use the craft you love the most to express yourself at best. I have used these cross-stitched little bunny designs, but yours could be different. The idea is to incorporate the card stock with fabric and ribbon - it transforms the bag completely. 

Materials needed:

Cardboard for the labels
Fabric designs of your choice
Fabric for the backing
Ribbons in matching colours
Simple brown bags
Clips

Pattern displayed for download:




Additional tools needed: hole puncher

Once the designs are ready, place them face down with the backing fabric. With erasable pen/pencil, transfer the egg patterns on the back and stitch around the curve, leaving an opening on one side (as shown in the image below).

Do not forget the notches: these guys are super curved and in order for the design to lay out flat once turned right side out, it needs to be helped by cutting notches all around the curve. Be careful to always cut 2 mm away from the seem.

Turn your designs right side out and finish the open seams with slip stitch.

Use the flag shaped pattern to cut the labels out of the card stock.
Punch two holes in the middle for the ribbons.

I have needle-weaved a loop on top of the egg-shaped labels for the ribbons. Attach the fabric and card labels together and tie the ribbons in a bow. Fill the bags with cookies and/or Easter buns/bread: recipe here. Clip the ready label on the brown bags. Make your friends happy :)

Happy Easter!

♥ Ivelina

Autumn Chubby Case

My autumn adventure continues in a more settled way. After the crazy stitching of the incredible beauties of the forest (some story in images I have already told you in my post The fire-fur companions of the woods) and constant changing embroidery floss, I am back to my sewing machine, trying to make it up to myself, since I abandoned my sewing place completely. It is nice to see how fast my project is growing and turning into a beautiful voluminous pouch. So many treasures are going to find their home in it :)

I used Henry Glass fall cotton collection, that are perfectly matching the colours on my cross-stitched design. I chose to introduce two colours for the face of the pouch and a third colour for the lining, but the pattern could be applied to one colour fabric.

size of the pouch:

lengt: 20/22 cm (top/bottom)
depth: 8/9.5 cm (top/bottom)
height: 12 cm

I improved my zipper pull with a little acorn charm.

The pattern is absolutely easy to follow: just make sure that the flats and sharps (marked on the pattern) connect when you folding the cut piece. Please, find the pattern here: pouch

I am sure you will have a great time creating a pouch like this - it is not a difficult make and it proofs to be absolutely useful.

My other foxy was framed and is about to be sent to its new home. I know she will be happy there.

Happy sewing, dear friends!
Thank you for visiting!

♥, Ivelina