Flour sack gift bag

I was filling my flour container yesterday, and it made me think about this gift bag that my Mom made and gave me (with gift in) a long time ago. At the time I thought it was the coolest thing, and thought to myself that I needed to make one someday.

Well, since I have this blog, I had an empty flour sack, and I still had this Robin Hood gift bag from my mom, I decided to give it a shot.

It was really easy and only took a couple minutes.

Here's how I made it:

1. Take an empty flour sack and flatten it out.

2. Cut across the top about a 1/2 an inch above where you want the top to be.

3. Open the sack up and fold the top down about 1/2 an inch the whole way around.

4. Now-fold the sack up like a brown paper bag or store bought gift bag. (This is probably the hardest part.)

5. Take your hole puncher and punch 4 holes-1 near each corner. (I had cute little hole cover thingy majiggies that I put around each hole.)

6. Take some kind of thick string (I used bias tape-from Goodwill, of course. My mom used jute.) and knot at each hole to make handles. You may have to double knot-if the string you use is too thin.

And there you go-a flour sack gift bag. A unique, cute, little bag that would be cool to give food gifts or kitchen gifts in, don't you think? I do.

***Note-the flour sack my mom gave me was dated 1994. I've held onto that thing for 15 years!***