Earlier this week I took part in Remnant Kings’ 12 Days Of Stitchmas, which has been taking place over on their blog. Originally there had been a party night planned in their Argyle Street shop, but when that was thwarted by external factors, a few of us took on the making of each of the ‘Days’ and my choice was a bottle bag. Anyone would think I had friends and relatives that drink…
My fabric choice was a fun penguin home decor weight print, with a black velvet ribbon for the tie:
And here’s what it made (apologies for the IG photo, my photo space is temporarily out of action right now, and I forgot to take a proper photo when I took this one)
There’s a very simple pattern for this that you can find on the Remnant Kings’ blog here.
I will admit to tarting mine up a little bit as follows:
- I turned the top and bottom edge over by 1/4″ and top stitched before I did anything else, I just couldn’t take the raw edges (I have issues)
- I French seamed the main seam, again to hide those raw edges.
- At the bottom, after gathering as per the pattern, I appliqued a circle with hand turned edges to finish it off. If you wish to do this, you’ll need a 3 3/4″ – 4″ circle.
This is a quick and easy way to decorate a liquid gift this Christmas, with or without modifications, and just a little bit different from the supermarket standard bottle bag!
Looks really cute but you would need to go into production-line mode to accommodate all your Father's bottles!
Thats cute!
Cute penguins!! And a very festive bottle.
Most of my bottles are open, and your Mother isn't averse to taking sustenance from them! Still, it's very smart, not to say colourful.
Dad
You give bottles away!?
Now how many borrtle covers do you make… have you lots of bottles to give away?
Very cute, I could do with a few of these so much nicer than the bog standard paper ones.
I love Kay's question above! ๐ Anyway, definitely a good bag to have in the repertoire…