Hi Everyone! It’s hard to believe that Christmas is less than a month away now! I look forward to this time all year long, and I have some fun Christmas projects and recipes to share with you in the next couple of weeks, starting with these little Christmas Treat Bags! Since this month is filled with lots of holiday parties, gift buying, making and packaging, I thought they would be the perfect way to start off the Christmas season here on my blog!
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CHRISTMAS TREAT BAGS
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YOU WILL NEED
1 cable knit sweater
Ribbon
Embellishments of your choice
Sewing machine or Hot glue gun
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DIRECTIONS
To make these, start by cutting your sweater pieces. For each bag, cut two pieces (mine were 6×10 inches big each) and hem the top parts that will be the bag opening. Then, place the two sweater pieces together with the outside sides facing each other, and either sew the three sides that you didn’t hem together, or glue them together using some hot glue. Then, turn the bags inside out, fill them with candy or whatever else you want to stuff them with, add some ribbon and whatever embellishments you are using (attach them to the ribbon using hot glue) and you are done!
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Happy Crafting, Everyone!
34 Comments
Love these treat bags – they’re beautiful! Clever idea to use a cable sweater. Thanks for the how-to.
Thanks so much, Kate! It was a fun “recycle” project! Hope you have a wonderful start to the Christmas season! 🙂
What a darling idea!! how cute!
Tanya
Thanks so much, Tanya!
These are so beautiful! I am sharing them on my FB page tomorrow at 1pm CST. Thanks for coming by my blog – do you have a facebook page for your blog?
http://thefirstyearblog.com
Thanks so much, Beth! I don’t have a facebook page at the moment, but should have one soon! Hope you have a great week 🙂
So pretty!
Thanks, Diana!
Great idea!!!So fresh!
Well done!
Thanks so much, Anastasia!
These are gorgeous!!! I will have to hit up my local thrift stores in search of sweaters 🙂
Thanks, Amber! I had a bunch of old sweaters packed up in the closet and was so happy when I found them all… but a thrift store would be the perfect place to find some too! 🙂
What a cute idea!
Thanks so much, Jordan!
These are so cute! i can think of a million things to do with them! thanks for sharing 🙂 http://www.handmadeintheheartland.com/
what an amazing gift wrap idea! so adorable
These are so pretty and such a gorgeous way to give a gift. Thanks so much for linking to Inspire Me. Hugs, marty
Christmas is coming, the latest michael kors bag here, good prices and quality, to introduce to you
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These look great, nice and cozy place for a gift. Sounds pretty easy to make too. Thanks for sharing.
Maria! I LOVE This! Thank you for sharing. You will be one of the features today at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House! The party will be live in an hour or two. Hope to see your prettiness again at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
These are so pretty. I love them. Thanks so much for sharing with Adorned From Above’s Link Party. Have a great week.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
http://www.adornedfromabove.com
These are so pretty! Can’t wait to try them! I’m doing a roundup of gifts you can make for Christmas on my blog and wondered if you’d allow me to include one of your photos with a link. Thanks!
This is so lovely. And I love upcycling – that’s one of the core beauties of sewing for me. I have pinned this to my Pinterest board My Handmade Christmas – http://www.pinterest.com/ByElsieB/my-handmade-christmas/.
Thanks so much, Lucy! I love upcycling things too! 🙂 I’m gonna go over to check out your Pinterest Christmas board! 🙂
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Love this idea! I hope I can find enough white cable knit sweaters to make a lot of these! Thank you!
Hi Christine! Glad you like the idea! I hope you found some sweaters to make these, they’re a fun little craft! Thanks so much for stopping by!
These are so cute and can be great for any occasion, just change out the bow color. Talk about a great project for thrift store shopping. I”m going to feature this in my upcycled gifts gift guide.
I love the bags oh a God , thanks for the wonderful designs.
I love this idea. I cannot wait to try this.
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