This is a sewing project that I had finished a while ago. I didn’t mention it because it seems a bit of too “normal” and I don’t want to make it a big deal. To be honest, I don’t know how many people really use a cloth peg bag nowadays, apparently we didn’t need one until the old plastic bag finally was broken two or three weeks ago. My husband thinks that plastic one was perfect and he seems really fond of it.
I hate that bag and wanted to get rid of it long time ago anyway. Watching it falling apart has been one of the most pleasant and forseeable things in my life. I was like an evil holding this little “dirty secret” in my mind, and at the same time conceriving “a real peg bag” to just wait for the right moment coming.
Then I made it happen. I saw a couple of designs in the cheap dollars warehouse and also looked some interesting ones on the Internet, and believe me, some of them are really fancy. Finally I decided that I only need a basic one and comparing its look and function, apparently the latter weighs much more.
So basically I didn’t use any pattern, I just measure out the size that I wanted to make. The width of this bag was mainly based on the size of a baby cloth hanger that I had available in hands. I still used that old piece of fabric I had used in many sewing projects before and added it red bias tape as the decoration for the highlight.
It took me a second time to finish it. The first time I made the opening to sit below the middle, which caused a serious problem — it reduced the depth of the bag and held very little pegs. That was a very stupid idea and I do think I was just as silly as the bag looked. Then I fixed it by putting the opening above the middle, everything seems fine then, though I admit that the upper half is still not usable anyway.
See, I could have just kept quiet about this project to show my respect to my husband’s feeling (as he liked the old plastic one and didn’t think making a cloth bag myself very necessary and a terribly brilliant idea). But guess what, he went out to help me to hang the washings this morning, and he took the peg bag with him as I insisted. He seemed very impressed and found it quite handy and enjoyable.
My work was validated accordingly. So now, I am feeling quite motivated to share it with other people in my blog 
