My First Peg Bag

This weekend it has been the late May bank holiday in the UK. May is an excellent month as there are two bank holidays. Typically, it has been raining. In my household we are fairly unbothered by rain. The family member least in favour of it is the dog who does not like to go out in the rain; walk on wet grass; or sit on wet concrete. The rest of us, having less need to interact with the wet ground, capitalise on the opportunity to stay in the house and do nice things. Punctuated by rounds of tea, crisp eating, and the occasional load of laundry which, due to the rain, will have to dry slowly indoors.

When the weather is dry our washing gets to hang on a washing line. This is a recent acquisition, and one that I, at least, am disproportionately pleased with. With the acquisition of said washing line came the acquisition of pegs, followed by the realisation that we needed a peg bag. We could have continued to store them in a plastic carrier bag, but where is the fun in that!?

Some time ago, before pay day, I did research and we chose some fabric, and then we waited. I should point out at this stage that my sewing skills are at a fledgling stage. I had Textiles lessons at school many years ago, but they stopped when I was about fourteen. Since then my sewing has been limited to sewing up knitting projects and hand stitching trousers when the hem inevitably drops.

Last Christmas I made some basic Christmas stockings, which were very pretty, but varying in the quality of their construction. So, deciding to make a peg bag was a bit of an adventure!

I found a tutorial I liked the look of, this one from Tales from a Happy House. I sourced some fabric, which came from Oh Sew Crafty (although I used their eBay store). I decided the peg bag should be at least semi-waterproof, so we chose this lovely ripstop fabric decorated with birds. I also bought ribbon for the trim, but decided not to use it in the end. This is the result:

I love it! I had some challenging moments with it, primarily around the fact that ripstop is quite stiff and there were things it didn't want to do or that seemed inadvisable. Like pressing. There was also the fact that I casually forgot to try to make the bag symmetrical. I don't care though! The bottom line is that it is finished, beautiful, and ready to go whenever the sun chooses to shine again!