Next obsession – drawstring bags! My eldest starts Kindergarten in August and she needs a drawstring bag to keep her gym kit in and I really fancied making it myself.
I did a fair amount of research into tutorials and Shabby Fabric’s (ooh, my first link!) YouTube video was my final selection. I wanted something that was lined and looked pretty polished and this fit the bill.
I went a bit drawstring-bag-crazy and made 5, and have another two on the go but have run out of cord – I hate it when that happens.
I settled on my measurements (not following the measurements in the Shabby Fabic tutorial) for a smaller bag which would be suitable for 2-4 year olds, and a larger one for 4+.
I adore this Beatrix Potter print, just how adorable is this?!
However my favorites are the two that I hand dyed years ago with a great friend who is the beauty behind Gugus Baby. We had such a blast experimenting with dyes and I have saved some of the fabric all this time and finally had the perfect project for it.
I can’t get enough of all those subtle and not so subtle variations in colour and random patterns. I really must do some more dying, it was such good fun.
I’d like to gift some of these bags to my daughter’s buddies who are also starting kindergarten this year, however I just know they are going to pick any bag except my hand dyed ones – come on, lions are way more interesting and fun right?! 😢
Finally, here is 3 year old Middle Child/Cinderella/Elsa/other Blue Princesses ARE available (😂) modeling the Jemima Puddleduck bag which is the larger size and arguably the smaller would be a better fit, but she loves it.
If anyone is interested in the measurements that I came up with I’m more than happy to share them 😀
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