A Simple Gift Bag

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. May it bring you much time for crafting.

Here is the wee tutorial I was planning before Christmas- however I’m sure you will have plenty of gifts to wrap in the coming months.

Select your fabric. Size and width not important- make sure it will fit your gift when finished. It pays not to go too long and skinny. This one is about 6×6 inches. You also need a piece of ribbon about twice as long as the width of the fabric.

Iron the fabric well and fold lengthways with the right sides together. Iron the piece of ribbon in half and put in the side seam on the bag about 3cm down from the top. (You can just see it peeking out.)

Starting at the top of the bag sitch down the open side and across the bottom. Clip corners and turn inside out. Hem the top of the bag.

Put your wee gifty inside and tie up the ribbon. It should scrunch up all nice like this with no extra effort required on your part.

Obviously you could use two pieces of fabric, fold your fabric lengthways, hem the top first- the possibilities are endless, and they take less than 5 minutes to make!