Cute Ugly Sweater Block Tote Bags

Have you all heard about the Ugly Sweat­er Block Sew-a-Long my friend Kerry from KidGiddy is run­ning at the moment?   Last year she came up with the most fab­ulous paper pieced Ugly Sweat­er quilt block and this year she’s sew­ing her heart out to make a whole quilt of Ugly Sweat­ers.     There’s a bunch of us join­ing in with the fun and today it’s my turn to share the Ugly Sweat­er blocks I’ve made.

Paper piecing is by no means my favour­ite thing but the res­ults it pro­duces are always spec­tac­u­lar so it’s def­in­itely some­thing I don’t mind doing every now and again.    I star­ted out mak­ing one and then got a little bit car­ried away and made a whole swag of them.   And then, I came up with the idea of turn­ing them into little gift/tote bags.   Super easy to do and a great little gift to have handy in the present cup­board this hol­i­day season!

You can grab a copy of Kerry­’s pat­tern from her Etsy store by click here.

To make the bags I upsized Mon­ica from Happy Zom­bie’s Tiny Treat Tote.   It’s an easy pat­tern to fol­low and one that I just keep using again and again.  I love it!   These bags are quite a bit lar­ger than Mon­ic­a’s and because of that I’ve added top stitch­ing to the top o give them a teeny bit more sta­bil­ity.  The backs aren’t quite a cute but they were def­in­itely much quick­er than mak­ing more blocks once I’d decided this is what I wanted to do.

What do you think?  Ready to do some Christ­mas sew­ing and make your own gift bags or some fest­ive place­ments or… maybe a whole quilt?     If you do don’t for­get to use the hasht­ags #uglyswea­t­er­b­lock and #kidgiddy on Ins­tagram.   Each time you post a pic­ture of a sweat­er, you will be auto­mat­ic­ally entered for a chance to win the prize of the week or the grand present at the end. The more pic­tures you post, the more chances you have of win­ning!    Head over to Kerry­’s blog post to check out the prizes on offer and even more details.

Have a great week!