Monday, March 11, 2024
Project bag factory!
My box from Wawak arrived Friday full of thread and zippers.
I bought 10 spools of thread and decided to straighten out my thread drawer to make room for them.
I bought a lot of zippers! They were having a sale - buy 2 get one free - so I had to make sure I ordered even numbers and I bought enough to get free shipping. I ended up buying 117 zippers! Here is what they looked like all spread out and a picture of how many I have left right now. I did buy a bunch of black zippers to fill out the order and to have on hand. Hardley looks like I made a dent with as many bags as I made this weekend! LOL!!
I know I spent more time at the cutting table and at the iron than I sewed. It takes a lot of pressing and cutting to make project bags. I managed to get 32 bags made - 22 large bags 12" x 14" and 10 small bags 7" x 10". The small ones take the nearly the amount of time as the large ones.
I have these ready to trim, press and then sew.
These pieces are ready to be sewn into zipper units.
I need to finish pressing these pieces for zipper units. I need to continue to make as many bags as I can by Thursday morning.
We had the Women In Construction luncheon on Friday. The tables were decorated with these beautiful bags.
Inside was a pink bathrobe monogramed with our first initial and a bag of goodies.
On Sunday it snowed most of the day which was fine because I wasn't going anywhere - I had project bags to make! Poor daffodils!
I did have to leave the house on Saturday to get more vinyl. That trip only burned 45 minutes so not too bad.
It's nice to have supplies on hand when starting a big project like yours. The bags look great.
ReplyDeleteThe snow missed us and you are the third blog I have read that did get the snow.
I haven't shopped at Wawak before. I'll have to check it out and see if they have big spools of grosgrain ribbon.
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