Making your own draw string bag

by Kylie Briggs
(Moura QLD)

Steps to making your own draw string bag

1. Please get the following:
1 coloured hand towel of your choice
a safety pin
round head pins
needle/ sewing machine
Cotton to match colour of hand towel
a felt picture of your choice
draw string preferably white
scissors
tape measure or a ruler

2. Lay out the hand towel on a flat surface.

3. Then fold the laid out hand towel in half.

4. Now get your felt picture and place wherever you think it looks best pin to one side of hand towel.

5. Once you have pinned it down get your needle and cotton and sew around the edges in blanket stitch.

6. Once the hand towel is folded sew all the way through both sides.

7. Now repeat on the other side.

8. Then fold over the top of hand towel about 3cm.

9. Then sew all the way around leaving a space of 2cm so you can thread your draw string through.

10. When you have finished doing that get your draw string and a safety pin.

11. Put your safety pin through one end of the draw string.

12. Then thread the draw string through the opening of the hem.

13. Leaving both ends of the draw strings out of either end so you can see them.

14. Remove safety pin from draw string.

15. Then get both ends of the draw strings and tie them in a knot.

16. Then pull them tight until you have closed off the top of your bag.

And now you have made your own draw string bag to put a number of different items in. (This bag can be used to put tablets in or can even be used as a toiletry bag)