My stepdaughter, Emily, has been busy sewing peg bags as gifts for her friends. Even though she is using my free peg bag tutorial, she lives on the other side of the country and these are all her own work. I suspect she will soon overtake me and make more than I have. Don’t you love her colour choices?
Buying ready-made fusible letters speeds up the process.
I adore the fabrics on this one.
Japanese cranes for good luck.
My peg bag tutorial has been my most popular post – far, far ahead of any other. Peg bags make great presents and do not take long to sew or lots of materials. You just need three or four pieces of fabric, a child-sized coathanger and a bit of ribbon (optional).
They can be used for pegs and for many other things. One of my friends keeps her delicate stockings in her wardrobe in one.
I appliquéd letters on some of mine. Emily has cleverly added ready-made letters to speed up the process, or you can leave them blank and let the fabric do the talking.
There is still time to make some before Christmas!
What’s a peg? Is that a clothespin? If so, I should make one of these for the clips I put on my plastic kids’ hangers so I can hang pants on them. It’s a very cute container.
Even though I have a Canadian husband, I sometimes forget that we speak different dialects, Afton. Sorry! Yes, pegs are clothespins in North America, but I would recommend skipping any appliquéing of letters as ‘clothespins’ is far too long. You would need a much bigger bag. 🙂
By the by, when I was at school, ‘pants’ used to be solely underwear here (pants/knickers/undies), but we now also use the word to mean trousers as you do.
Great idea. Gotta try it.
These are great! I think I need to add them to my list!
Pretty! I like the dark blue one with the feather print, personally. I’ve just been given a peg bag, or I’d probably make one, but even I cannot use two…
Well done to you and your stepdaughter!
Well done, I’ll pop over to see your tutorial next
These are lovely, it was your tutorial that led to nearly everyone I know now owning a peg bag. I really need to make myself one now 🙂
A job well done, Emily. They look fantastic.
Beautiful; she has a great eye for color and matching. And finding a shortcut for the lettering is a great idea!
Too cute!! Not many of my friends hang clothes out but these look like a great make!
This is a great gift idea. Her print choices are great.
neat!
The Mother-in-Law mentioned this weekend that she’d like a peg-bag for Christmas and, fortuitously, your blog post appeared in my Feed 🙂