Cheese Bag Pictorial

and you charge how much for these? you know for us, that can't sew to save our lives...lol

 

Nice Thanks for the leason!!

 

Wow Christy! Thanks so much. I can't sew very well but I think I might try my hand at this. If nothing else, my mother does sew and she said she'd try cheese bags for me if she gets some cheese.

Trisha

 

Sara I will make you a couple to pay you for my mica be a little bit tho.
and NO I am not making these for sale./

 

No prob won't be as good as Christy's I'll bet but will work I already bought the materinal.

 

Sondra, if you run out of time or if anyone needs any bags, I would be glad to sew some up, I need some distractions. Carolyn

 

I have a couple questions, as long as it is muslin, would you prewash the muslin first, could you self turn the top of the bag instead of using the bias tape, both ends of the bags are open, do you pull up the cords at both ends or could you use one long piece of bias tape? I have made many many different size of this type of bag for gift bags, but I serged the inside seam. Thanks Carolyn

 

Yep, that is what I thought, but I had to ask anyway. Thanks . Carolyn

 

Question:
Are the square corners a problem at all? Would it be better to make the bottom seam curved?

Alice

 

probably but flatfelt seams are hard to accomplish on a curve and you already have the fold there so why cut and sew. I just finished 6 this morning. So Sara your's is done. little smaller than Christy's as I was trying to get as many as possible out of 2 yrds.

 

By the way your muslin needs to be washed BEFORE making them as it shrinks. ask me how I know?? No really Carolyn told me how much it shrinks.

 

I made one of these last night. Did not use the bias tape though....I'm too cheap. LOL I folded over the top and but two button holes in then folded over again. I didn't have any cord and used some hemp twine which worked fine.

How do you launder these? I turned mine inside out and hosed it down with the sink sprayer and was thinking of just sanitizing the sink and giving it a soak/wash in there. I really don't want to run my machine for one little ol' bag.

Oh, and to hang mine since don't have cabinet door knobs....I made two waffle block towers. Stood them up alongside my stock pot. The dowel I used to hold the cheese bag fit perfectly between the indentations of the blocks. LOL

 

When you enclose the seam like you state in your instructions... Is that called a french seam?

I'm gonna have to make me some.