clothespin bag

Since I finished my sweater and I have a couple more sweaters coming up, plus a set of embroidery pieces, I wanted to tidy up some loose ends and do something small before plunging myself into a larger project.

So for the past couple days I've just been mending, and yesterday I made this clothespin bag:



It's a pear!

I cut the hole to be purposely odd-shaped, lined it in muslin, and edged it with rick-rack.  The strap/stem is a scrap of grosgrain and the bag itself is sewn with a French seam to enclose the raw edges.

This is part of my mission to eliminate all plastic bag and cardboard box storage in my house and replace it with cloth or something else that's more permanent.  The clothespins were in a yucky plastic bag before.

I don't actually have a clothesline outside, so this lives on my basement clothesline.  At some point I would love to hang a clothesline outside; then maybe I will make a lemon- or apple-shaped bag.

Probably a couple more days of mending before I start anything else.  I do tend to let the mending pile up!  It's easier to do it all at once.