Tutorial! It’s been a while. I went with my favorite companion to a party this weekend, and had a bottle of champagne to bring. You will not be surprised to know I decided to sew a bag to adorn it, and perhaps also not surprised to learn I started the whole process a little too late to actually complete it before we had to leave. I was so close! I finished it yesterday.
This bag is very similar to the half-hour reversible drawstring bag, though it has more detail and so will take a bit longer. Start with two pieces of fabric each 12.5″ by 16.5″, and fold them long edge to long edge, right sides together. Sew that edge with a 1/2″ seam allowance, leaving an opening between 3″ and 3.75″ away from one end, which will be the top end. Below you can see my technique of doubling my pins on each side of the opening; it’s my special self-signal for “something different happens here.”
