Bag Lady

I decided to make goody bags for the SIX year old birthday this year. The guest list ended up being considerably longer than I'd intended, and I'm not sure how it happened. Not only did we invite more than I'd planned, they all came. That wasn't something I was expecting - usually there are at least 3 kids who can't come. Maybe it's different now they're school age - nobody was on holiday.

So, long story short, I ended up making 13 of these bow purses (sans bow) for goody bags, and four drawsting bags (2 of which made the photo which had to get cropped to hide my feet, and the feet of my 2yo assistant). The cutest thing was one of the boys loves red, so he really wanted one of the purses. So my 2yo assistant got a drawsting bag, which she loves.

The pattern is Ottobre 03/08 #28. It's very easy, although I got very sick of doing the gathering because you need to gather the purse part to the band 4 times for each bag. Totally over bags now.