8.28.2009

oilcloth lunch sack tutorial.


Oilcloth is a laminated fabric. Totally washable, which makes it perfect for reusable lunch sacks. There are tons of ideas and instructions out there for these, and fabric.com had oilcloth on sale, and I had a coupon, so I thought we'd try it.

I found the easiest pattern from Skip To My Lou. She's got a great site. I used her pattern and added velcro and "embellishments" to personalize them.

Oilcloth is washable, but still plastic, therefore not such a great idea for direct contact with your food. Keep that in mind.

Here's how we did it:


you can leave the top, or fold it over like this:

5 comments:

Donna said...

That fabric.com is dangerous. I bought a bunch of home decor fabric to make curtains for the kitchen....

ShEiLa said...

I wish I had these when my kiddos were little. It would have saved on all of my hand-drawn artwork I used to do on their brown bags to make them cute.

ToOdLeS.

Somer said...

I love those. My girls were just asking for new lunch sacks. Did you line them?

Emma said...

your amazing!!

Alissa @ Homemade Gifts said...

These are incredible! So cute :)