Let's Do Lunch

Shannon Mullen

Stitch a colorful lunch bag that you can take to school or the office and use again and again.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Use 1/4" seam allowances unless otherwise noted.
Fabric

• 1/2 yard of solid fabric
• 1/2 yard of print fabric with motifs you can cut out

• 1/3 yard of insulated batting (such as Insul-Bright)
• 1/4 yard of stiff fusible interfacing (such as fast2fuse)
• 3/4" button
• Coordinating cotton sewing thread
• Coordinating or contrasting decorative thread
• Spray adhesive

Cutting

From the solid fabric cut one 11"x28" rectangle for the bag.

From the print fabric cut one 11"x 28" rectangle for the lining and two 2 1/2"x7" rectangles for the tab.

Cut one 11"x 28" rectangle from the insulated batting.

Cut one 4"x 6" rectangle of stiff fusible interfacing for the bag bottom.