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Sew Some Great Gift BAgs

11/28/2020

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Wearing my Brother Ambassador hat, I recently contributed this project to the official Brother Stitching Sewcial Blog. I named the bag you see in the photo above the Confetti Gift Bag. It's easy and fun to make with little more than a strip of organza, snippets of fabric, and strands of colorful thread! You can re-size this bag and use it for hostess gifts, thank you gifts, party favors, and more!

Instructions and a full tutorial are available when you CLICK HERE.

Wrapping gifts in something other than standard tissue and fancy paper has always been a "thing" for me. I've used colored comic strips from the newspaper, brown butcher paper decorated with stamps and stickers, and even fabric yardage in place of gift wrap. How about you? It would be fun to hear similar tales for recycling and using ordinary wrappers as coverings for gifts hidden inside.  

In the last few years, I've challenged myself to make some bags that are worthy of being kep and reused, or at least put on display for a period of time. Today I want to share a few more from past archives, in the hope of inspring you to make some of your own.

​Below you'll find some photos and links to full instructions. Most of these are from the archives of Brother Sews projects. When you see specialty feet mentioned, check your machine options to see if you have similar accessories to tackle specialty sewing tasks.
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This Paisley Pearl trimmed bag features the two accessory feet, the SA150 Pearls & Sequins foot and SA184, Edge Joining foot. This one is a super easy to make! CLICK HERE for instructions.

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I had so much fun decorating this one! It's almost like making a gingerbread house. Perfect for "housing" (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun) home-made goodies, this bag is sure to be a keeper. All you need is a bit of fabric, a few trims, and a piece of felt. CLICK HERE for instructions.

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This bag and tag project shows you how to make an in-the-hoop tag using the Brother BES software program. The tag design is one of the built-in appliqués. It's perfect for a quick embellishment on a simple bag or any holiday package. You'll find instructions HERE on my site.

I hope these bags brighten up your holidays! Let me know if you plan to create your own pretty package wraps for gift giving season.
10 Comments
Sharon Bolin
11/28/2020 20:52:10

Loved the variety of gift bag ideas. I feel them "coming on."Thanks always for your good suggestions.

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Joanne Banko
11/29/2020 15:23:05

Hi Sharon! I'm so glad to know you liked these ideas. I had a lot of fun "cooking" them up! Hope you have fun stitching :-)

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Kathy Gingras
11/29/2020 12:41:03

I have the edge foot and pearls foot; looking forward to this learning how to use them project. The little house bag would be even more adorable larger to hold a stuffie or small doll for play when traveling. Thank you for the ideas with instructions.

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Joanne Banko
11/29/2020 15:26:05

Hello Kathy! I absolutely love your idea for the doll in the house. It's delightful!!! You'll enjoy using the pearls and sequins foot. It is really quite versatile. In the future I'll have to put together a post showing a bunch of ways to use it. Happy Sewing!

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Pearl J VanDerMeere VanDerMeere
11/29/2020 14:06:31

Hi, Is their a sewing that you would recomment when doing drunk pattern, Sewing around that cured?

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Joanne Banko
11/29/2020 15:29:52

Hi Pearl! Great question! Currently there is nothing Brother specific but a foot with a short toe is helpful for this. There is a company that makes a special set of accessories with a foot that is just what you are looking for. While I don't own one, I saw it demonstrated and it looked really useful. Here is the link:
https://www.martellinotions.com/58-presser-foot-for-sewing-curved-pieces.html

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Elizabeth Lewis
12/9/2020 18:32:45

Thank you, Joanne, for another great tutorial. These bags and tags will get a lot of use from me this month! Thanks also for supporting the Wolfpack #sewcialhop2020.

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CARLA link
1/29/2022 17:11:22

I just found this email from you and I tried to watch the replay on this email but no sound. Then I clicked YOUTUBE channel and the ad had plenty of sound but no sound on your video of Q&A/

I will try going to your channel and see if it has sound, in my YOUTUBE LIBRARY.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2022 IS FINALLY HERE. Hoping for a better year with all the health problems going on in our world today.

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CARLA FROM VIRGINIA BEACH VA link
1/29/2022 17:53:42

Joanne,
It is me again. I was actually able to click into the video replay in the middle and it had sound, so I just kept going backward clicking towards the beginning so that I didn't miss anything.
I am enjoying this REPLAY so much, all this info on threads at the beginning is great. I have tons of thread for EMBROIDERY and I'm sure it is over thousands of dollars as I was always buying it when I went to a live event. Especially some of the discontinued threads if they had some. I made an EXCEL SPREADSHEET to put my thread numbers and color in so I could look for colors that I didn't have or look for the numbers that I required for a certain design. I am so happy to be watching this REPLAY. And I saw the question about the foot to use and your answer above. People need to learn to read all the posts as they sometimes have REPLYs that could be useful for them. Thanks again for all you do and wish you would be back here for another event in person.

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CARLA link
1/29/2022 19:46:48

I am so overwhelmed about this BLOG, you have put so much information and designs in it.
Thanks again, and I can't wait for the next video that I hope I will be able to attend this month.

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