A group of friends and I share a tradition of taking our kids’ teachers lunch during teacher appreciation week. We tally up the amount of lunches we need, notify our teachers and then gather in the morning to assemble the lunches. One friend makes delicious chicken salad, another brings croissants for the sandwiches, one brings fruit, another makes wonderful pasta salad and another awesome brownies. I take care of the packaging. Last year I made these sacks. This year I made oilcloth lunch sacks.
I first made a pattern out of cardboard measuring 15 x 12. Cut a 2 1/2 inch square out of each bottom corner.
Take two pieces of oilcloth right sides together and draw around your template. Cut out. I used small clothes pins to hold the pieces together.
I used pinking shears to cut across the top (very optional- I thought it gave the edge a finished look)
Sew down each side and across the bottom. I used a stitch length of 5 and 1/4 inch seams on the entire bag. My machine handled the oilcloth beautifully, but If you have any troubles, Sew Mama Sew has a wonderful article on sewing with oilcloth.
Fold in bottom of bag bringing bottom seam and side seam together
Pin bag bottom to bag side with clips
Sew across on each side
Turn bag right side out and fold in top of bag about 1/2″ and then top stitch
Measure about 2 1/2 inches from middle side seam on all four corners, finger press, clip with clothes pins
Top-stitch closely to the corner fold on each of the four sides
Finished!
This is too cute and it doesn’t look very hard. I may try this.
Add a strip of velcro to the top to make it spillproof : )
this is ssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute,
i guess i will make one for softball season and school!
the velcro is isnt it?????
and were did u get it????
is oilcloth waterproof? I’ve never used it before.
Mimi, yes it is waterproof——feels like vinyl, maybe stiffer.
will is soak through will it leak
and what r some cute colors for an almost 12 year old
so==here is a good websit to visit if looking for oil cloth and is in the us
http://www.mendels.com/fabrics10.shtml
if this doesnt work go to http://www.MENDELS.com and search oil cloth
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What a great idea. The teacher’s must love you for this. Very cute!
~Tonya
This is a Fabulous idea and Thank You not only for showing us how to construct the bags, but a great website to purchase oilcloth! I make my children’s lunch almost every day, and every day I use those little plastic bags I think about how wasteful it is to use them! Because of your cute tutorial, I am going to make these and matching sandwich/snack bags as well to cut down on our carbon footprints! Thanks again!
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