Inspired by miss phoenix & dynamom: scrap bag & gift bag PICS
Miss phoenix posted about the scrap bag she made recently and it inspired me to make one! I made a pillow scrap sack. It was very quick and easy to make, I just used an old large pillow case and sewed in a long zipper from an old dress I'd recently cut up to make something else. I'd been needing more scrap storage but kept putting off making a scrap bag, and here it took me less than 10 minutes to make. voila!
Dynamom posted about a gift bag she made recently and it inspired me to make one! I made it out of a cereal box and covered it in newspaper. Punched holes in the sides and strung scrap thick ribbon through. Another thing that took me less than 10 minutes! I used it for one of Mercury Man's Valentine's Day presents:
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Hooray!!
So easy, right?
I asked for old maps on freecycle and a lady not only had them but brought them to me since she was going to be near my neighborhood anyhow. They make great gift bags, too.
I need something for scraps too.
Tigerfish Mama
reminds me.... I need to get creative again!
being creative on a daily basis keeps me sane 
good thinking on using the pillow case for the scrap bag, what a clever idea! i didn't even put a zipper in the scrap bag i made, partly because i'm nervous to try sewing a zipper. is it tricky? i could take the free zipper and button hole class at the sew and vac where i got my machine but i already figured out how to do button holes and they'd require that i buy a zipper foot from them. do i really need a zipper foot to do it, or can i do it with the basic foot my machine came with?
by the way, i love how you and motor have been referring to yourselves as cowboy seamstresses. it's so true; the stuff i make is far from technically correct, but i figure it all out eventually and make it work however i can, and the inspiration and creativity are what show the most. we certainly are cowboys (or cowgals) of the sewing machine.
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I mean, wow so easy!