Make your own Christmas gift bags...

I worked at a fabric/craft store while I was in high school and on college breaks. If you work at a fabric store- you should be a good sewer- right? Well I was 16 and didn't know much but my mom taught me the basics. I am no seamstress but can handle simple projects and hemming.

Anyways, something I started doing over the last couple of years was sewing gift bags with old remnants of Chrismtas fabric that I'd collected years before. I wanted to use it up and thought it would be fun to have some reusable gift bags that I'd made. Last year after Christmas I purposed to use up ALL of the fabric I had laying around and come this year I had a nice little stash of bags to use for gifts. Here is one:


Besides the thoughtfulness of a homemade bag, I obviously like these because they are reusable and create much less Christmas waste than wrapping paper....(though I do enjoy some wrapping paper too) They can be passed back and forth between family members for years or given away to friends. Plus....you can get remnants of Christmas fabric for pretty inexpensive that they don't end up being any more than a gift bag you buy....you just have spend the time to sew. For example, I spent $10 at Joanns recently on Christmas scraps. I'm sure I'll be able to make 15-20 bags from all of this depending on the size.

Goal for January: Find a baby free hour to sew!!