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A tiny tote
... for a tiny tot, my best friend Emily's 12-month-old daughter Lydia. Lydia's birthday is at the end of December. Her mom and I have been friends since we were infants (really), and we exchange birthday gifts at the holidays (because that's when our birthdays fall). So it made sense to add Lydia to the gift exchange. On the logic that Emily was receiving one of the dishtowel totes, and Lydia is still young enough that stuff Mom likes is cool, and tote bags are always useful, I decided to make Lydia a tiny tote.
I used some stashed cotton and basically followed the same pattern as for the other tote bags, just on a miniature scale. I have a mini tote bag that my Aunt Frances made for me when I was about Lydia's age, and it is still in daily use around here as my lunch bag. So I patterned the bag for Lydia on that small little bag, which is about 6 inches square. Lydia's ended up a little smaller than that one because of the panel fabric I used for the exterior: I wanted to showcase each panel, which is not quite 6 inches, and not get weird bits of the adjacent panels also showing at the sides and bottom. But in the end I think it worked out - a good size for carrying around a few blocks, some Cheerios, and whatever else a 12-month-old little girl needs to have with her. :-)
The fabric is from the stash. The exterior is part of a half-yard of panel fabric that I bought at St. Theresa Textile Trove a while back; the interior is the same aqua blue cotton that I used in the dishtowel totes. In retrospect, I probably would have preferred using a slightly different shade of blue for the lining, but the lighting in the dining room wasn't great and I used what I had to hand. All the other fabric was buried in the depths of the not-yet-unpacked sewing room, so getting to my other options was not really possible.
Total fabric: about a quarter yard, perhaps?
Total cost: nominal, as everything was already stashed away; probably a total of about $3's worth of fabric.
Total time: under an hour, since I was in bag production mode.
I used some stashed cotton and basically followed the same pattern as for the other tote bags, just on a miniature scale. I have a mini tote bag that my Aunt Frances made for me when I was about Lydia's age, and it is still in daily use around here as my lunch bag. So I patterned the bag for Lydia on that small little bag, which is about 6 inches square. Lydia's ended up a little smaller than that one because of the panel fabric I used for the exterior: I wanted to showcase each panel, which is not quite 6 inches, and not get weird bits of the adjacent panels also showing at the sides and bottom. But in the end I think it worked out - a good size for carrying around a few blocks, some Cheerios, and whatever else a 12-month-old little girl needs to have with her. :-)
The fabric is from the stash. The exterior is part of a half-yard of panel fabric that I bought at St. Theresa Textile Trove a while back; the interior is the same aqua blue cotton that I used in the dishtowel totes. In retrospect, I probably would have preferred using a slightly different shade of blue for the lining, but the lighting in the dining room wasn't great and I used what I had to hand. All the other fabric was buried in the depths of the not-yet-unpacked sewing room, so getting to my other options was not really possible.
Total fabric: about a quarter yard, perhaps?
Total cost: nominal, as everything was already stashed away; probably a total of about $3's worth of fabric.
Total time: under an hour, since I was in bag production mode.
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