Cupcake Bags

I realised on Thursday afternoon that if Jack's English cousins are going to get their birthday presents on time I'd have to post them pronto! And that means actually figuring out what to make them. Whoops, guess I've had other things on my mind...

I decided to turn the cupcake appliques I'd made for them into bags. A lovely make-it-up-as-you-go project.








I used some offcuts from another project for the tops of the bags, easy peasy as they were already cut into neat strips. I sewed eight strips, 17cm long by 6-10cm wide, together and then chopped it up to make the smaller pieces I needed.

I couldn't think what to use for the backs of the bags until I searched my stash and discovered some of Spotlight's greatest hits - that gorgeous cupcake fabric! Does anyone not have some of that? I used the yellow print for the chocolate-iced cupcake in the yellow wrapper and the white print for the strawberry-iced cupcake in the blue wrapper.

The girls are turning five. I have no contact with five year old girls. Will these bags be too babyish for them? Their names are Daisy and Skye so inevitably, while I didn't plan it this way, the cupcake with the yellow wrapper will go to Daisy and the one with blue will go to Skye. Thus it has been for the last five years and thus it shall always be.

Now I just have to fill them up with Caramello Koalas (in a zip lock bag, of course!) and pop them in the post.