Bridal Showers. I love bridal showers. They’re a great opportunity for all the ladies to get together, play some fun games, gossip about the groom, and give some great gifts.
My great gal pal Pam is getting married on April 27 in St Thomas USVI (WOOHOO!). We’re all going on a carnival cruise, and the hubby and I are both in the bridal party. That being said, my mom and I (very politely) were tasked with making the brides maid dresses. If I do say so myself, those are coming along QUITE nicely. Look forward to a post about them later, very picture whorish 
Anyways, I digress. As wonderful as wrapping paper and gift bags may be, not much bang for your buck. You could spend $8 on some decent wrapping paper from Hallmark and lets be serious – an excited bride to be is not going to be politely peeling the tape off to save the paper. I speak from experience, you wanna tear that stuff off so fast to see what goodies are inside your beautifully wrapped package. Is it Corningware? A Blender?? TEA TOWELS!? The suspense is killing. This is the perfect excuse to make a “bag for your bride”. Not only is this useful, but one less thing to go out and purchase for the tropical wedding/vacation.
No pattern here my friends, just two simple squares sewn together with handles and a liner. For the stripe I sewed on a long strip of the liner fabric. Place it with the wrong side up and stitch down one side. Flip it over and press about 1/8 inch of the other side over, and stitch on top of the stripe on both sides. Tada! If there are large requests for a longer tutorial, maybe one will preceed at a later date.
I think Pam was pretty happy with the result. My friend Court was a doll and ironed on the interfacing for me for the outside pieces and a light interfacing for the straps. Beautiful!
Fabric Land had these iron on transfers in the sale bin, I had to grab a few of these darling gold chandelier ones, I couldn’t resist! It really turned out great. Although, we did a test one first Court and I, it was a good idea. We tried to peel it off too soon and ended up with a gold mess on our test swatch. Wait until they cool until you peel them off!!
Pam models her new bag. You’re a great girl and I’m happy! She’ll make a beautiful bride won’t she? Enjoy
April 1, 2009 at 8:14 pm |
Great tutorial! I love the bag and especially the iron-on. I’ll have to give this a try once I’m reunited with my sewing machine…
April 6, 2009 at 1:16 pm |
I love it Ash! Good Job!