A few months ago I saw a Knitty product review for Bento Bags. I was immediately smitten but, like so many other project bags I’ve seen for sale, I realized it would be pretty easy to make one myself. I found this tutorial on Pretty Prudent Baby, grabbed some fabric from my stash, and gave it a try.
It was a very quick and easy project – it was less than two hours from start to finish. I’m not 100% happy with it, mainly due to the fact that this was a spur of the moment project so I didn’t pay as much attention to the details as I should have. But I can definitely see myself making this again. In the future I would sew the corners on the base differently (I’d use corners similar to those on box bags) and use a thicker fabric, I think these tweaks would give me something closer to what I had in mind. Actually, now that I think about it, this might look really nice made out of tea towels.
By the way, do you like that yarn combination? I’ve been playing around with an idea for a crochet project, and those are the colours I decided on. But more on that in a few days…
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