Giraffe Tote
This week’s project is a little bittersweet for me. It marks a milestone in my youngest son’s life as he starts preschool on Monday. His current favorites are giraffes (which he calls ffff-ffff) so I made him this little tote bag to carry his lunch to school and his projects home. He was pretty excited the first time he saw it! I used some “hand-me-down” green corduroy fabric for the base of the bag and a super stiff denim for the lining which gave enough body that I didn’t have to interface. I piped the top edge for more stability and as an attractive way to transition between fabrics. The giraffe design was modeled after a coloring book drawing and is fused, then satin stitched to the bag. I used a selvage strip for the mane and clipped it at close intervals. You might recognize the fabric from my post earlier this week – it is Frolic from Sandy Gervais by Moda.
