Love bird drawstring bag!

Hiya!

Last week, D had to go out of town for work from Wednesday till Sunday evening, so I had the house to myself for 5 whole days.  D and I did long distance for over 18 months before I moved to Sydney so I am pretty used to my own company, but I was a little surprised at how odd it was to be home alone in the home we share.

For the first few days, I was totally fine and I filled my evenings with work and little things I had to do around the house (read: laundry, vacuuming, mopping the floors etc. etc.).  Then I spent Saturday out and about doing errands, getting a manicure and buying a few bits and pieces in preparation for D's birthday... Sunday morning, I got up bright and early and ventured out for a phenomenal brunch with a friend at bills... but by Sunday afternoon, I was a bored and really missing D.  Which is when this happened:

Yeap, that's my entire fabric stash plonked on the bed in the spare room as I tried to think up a quick and easy project to add to a belated birthday gift (hmm, I'm sensing a trend here - see my last post)...

After half an hour of googling, and another couple of minutes playing with the various combos, I decided to make a lined drawstring bag using the wonderful tutorial by In Color Order with these fabrics:

The gift I'd bought my friend has to do with her upcoming wedding so I thought these little birds (which if you squint, tilt your head and use your imagination kinda sorta look like love birds) fit the bill.

As dinner bubbled away on the stove I did some cutting:

 And by the time we sat down to eat, I'd sewn the pieces together and pressed the seams open...

One episode of Modern Family later, I was done!

I'm really pleased with the final product and it really couldn't have been easier to make! I'm a novice sewer and I think it only took me about 1 hour to make (including cutting and ironing time). 

I'm not sure what the fabrics are but they're quite thin (and I did not interface the fabric) so the bag doesn't stand up on its own.  It's only standing up in the picture because the present inside the bag happens to be a reasonably thick book.:) 

I love the idea of coupling something store bought with something hand made... and I love the idea of wrapping a gift in something that's practical (and if I do say so myself, pretty cute!).  I see myself making many more of these in the future!

XOXO

B