Cut bag ten inches wide, and twenty-eight inches long. Make like Laundry Bag. Do not overhand seams, but make French seams.
Or,
Use a large flowered handkerchief.
1. Fold handkerchief through the center, wrong side out.
2. Stitch through the center of the folded handkerchief.
3. Fold over on the stitching.
4. Stitch, or overhand the two folded edges which are lying together.
5. On one side of handkerchief turn down one thickness of goods. (Like an envelope flap.)
Ladies’ Work Bag
Ladies
belt design
Do the same to the other side. “Tack” the center of the upper part of the folded edge of the flap to the single thickness lying just beneath. Do same to other side
6. Make a small “box” plait (or double plait) in each single thickness of handkerchief at top.
7. Sew the plaits together, and fasten a loop between the plaits.
Finish bag with two little cotton balls, sewed to the lowest point.
This makes a many-pocketed bag, and would be a pleasing Christmas gift to your mother.
1. Buy belting which is sold by the running yard.
2. Embroider the design given on this page upon the belt.
Trace design through carbon paper; or transfer by tracing through tissue page, and turning the picture face-down on the material; trace picture again on wrong side.