Little Bag for My Little Mom

I dig the blog Made.  Lots of fun tutorials and great links to other bloggers and tutorials.  Recently, Dana (the writer of Made) did a series of posts to get ya'll inspired for Mother's Day.  "Pa-SHAW!" I thought, I already had my idea for what I was making my mom -- I didn't need no stinking tutorials!

And then my mom and dad landed in California and my mom promptly told me NOT to make the skirt I was going to make her for Mother's Day.  "Save it for my birthday" she says.  Yeah, her birthday's next month, so it's not like I'm getting a boatload of extra time, but I digress.


So now I'm the giftless chump for Mother's Day.  And it's not that I need to give her a gift.  I mean, I don't care if I get a present for Mother's Day.  You'd better feed me, that's for damn sure, but a gift... meh.  But I feel like an asshole without a gift for my mom, especially since I had this whole grand scheme about how I was going to get her measurements and go buy the fabric and then whip up a skirt lickity-split like the Tazmanian Devil of sewing that I am and "Oh honey, you shouldn't have" lah dee-freakin'-dah Happy Mother's Day.  Instead, she poops on my idea. 


So I made her this.

My mom loooooooooooooves little bags.  Her tastes range from snack-size ziplock to wristlets.  Aaaaaand it was lime green, which is her favorite color.  She loved it.  Squee!

There's even a little pocket for her license and credit cards.


Made featured Noodlehead who I had never heard of, but apparently everyone else in the free world has.  Where have I been?  How could I have missed such a lovely, lovely blog?  And this bag?  Fab-o!  Came together like a dream.  Tutorial is here, and I think this pattern is appropriate for a beginner, even though it has a zipper.  You can make probably two whole bags with three fat quarters, maybe even three.  That's at least two, maybe three bags for around $5 total.  Mama's here to save you ca$h! 


xoxo,