Snack Sacks

I'm happy to say that the snack sacks were a huge success at the school :) I am so amazed at the great manners from all of the kids and parents at the school. They should all be very proud to be a part of this community.


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If you are interested in learning more about the snack sacks  please feel free to contact me.


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The process :)

 I measured and cut the nylon

                                    

First step of sewing done.

 Then Brooklyn my amazing helper fit the cotton fabric into the nylon :)

 I sew the two pieces together.

:) ta da !

Earth Day

Earth Day is my completion date for these snack sacks :) I'm working at a steady pace and I'll be done with lots of time to spare :)

Fabric Choices

The choice has been made and I've made another trip to Fabricland, I spent a bunch of time cutting the fabric. I've now measured and cut everything I need to.

Velcro x 220, I still need to get some more.

 I bought all that Fabricland had.

First Choice of fabric.

 Peace, Earth, Life. Just perfect for our School :)

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Second choice of fabric.

All of our many different hands supporting our Earth.

I'm going to start sewing tonight. I'm hoping I can get these done fairly quickly , but I know that making 260 snack sacks is going to take a few weeks :)

Day 2

Today I went back to the Fabric store to get some more velcro and another sample of cotton for the outside of the snack sacks.  I have 4 that Mrs. Verlaan and the parent council are going to choose from. As much fun as it would be to have each child have a totally unique snack sack, It would be almost impossible to make 260 different coloured sacks ;)

I cut the nylon into 1 meter pieces and stack 3 together, then I measure out the rectangles from my template :) I can get 20 snack sack linings from 1 meter. It takes a while to get this all done, but makes sense to do it all at once.

This is the stack of 280 snack sack insides :) with the nylon I picked up and some I had already here I am now done this part of the job :)

Last night I started shopping!

I love Fabricland and spend an awful lot of time in that store. Last night I went to pick up  some supplies so I can get started. I bought a whole bolt of  nylon for the insides of the snack sacks, That would be approx 10 meters. I think I may need a bit more, but I bought all they had in white.  I got 10 meters of velcro and I need A LOT more!! I miscalculated that amount for sure.  I've already spent about 3 hours of my time measuring, cutting, shopping . This project is going to take a lot of hours :)

I'll be sure to take pictures as I start sewing :)