Flying Barrel Of Monkeys

I’m on a spy bag making kick these days. I made my first one as part of a blog swap with a friend of a friend in Japan. Then I made a few for birthday gifts. And I made a super jumbo packed one for MonkeyBoy for our recent plane trip. That combined with the felt car book and a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD occupied the entire length of one of our eight hour plane rides recently.

My sewing skills still leave a lot to be desired, but I’m getting better at sewing straight lines. The bags are double-stitched shut to keep the bite-sized contents from coming out, and I tend to get a little curvy on the second set of stitches. I try to personalize the bags to the recipients by putting in little toys they might like, their names, or using special fabric.