Girl Scout Earth Day celebration

Sunday, I was a speaker at a regional Girl Scout Earth Day celebration.  Here is a picture taken during the opening flag ceremony

 

The girls did a variety of rotations after my presentation, my favorite was when they decorated canvas reusable bags with hand prints.

Girl Scout Zipper Pouches

Girl Scout cookie sales continue in our part of North Texas.  Here are some of the Girl Scout Zipper Pouches I have made in the last couple of weeks.  I am so glad I hoarded this fabric four years ago. 

Here is one with green embroidery. 

 Hot Pink embroidery has been popular for many little girls.

This customer wanted a girly font instead of the Murray.

I have varied the lining to change things up a bit.   Here is pink and white hounds tooth.

Here is a green and white little tiny flower print, I thought it looked "girl scouty". 

I got lucky and found more of this green flower print online.  I think it matches the front of the pouch better than the gingham in the original pouch I made. 

Here is green and white hounds tooth. 

One Mom had two girls and requested just Cookie Business on their pouch, I varied the charm on this one and used a dollar instead of a tree. 

Here is a close up the dollar charm.  I love when I have the perfect charm-- the charm collection in growing by leaps and bounds as a result. 

It's been fun making all of these.  Little girls love their name in embroidery!  Thanks for stopping by!

Girl Scout Cookie Money Bag

Our daughter is back in Girl Scouts as a Brownie.  Several years ago when she was a Daisy, I made her this Girl Scout tote bag to carry the cookies door to door.  I decided she needed something to store the money and came up with a matching zipper bag.  I got lucky and still had scraps from the original tote.

Here is her new $$$ Bag.

The lining is this cute polka dot from Stampin' Up!

I'll be listing these in my Etsy store soon.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Girl Scout Cookie Bag

Last month I came across some Girl Scout fabric by Robert Kaufman Fabrics and just had to buy some to make Micaela "something". Micaela became a Girl Scout this past fall and when I bought the fabric cookie selling season was about to begin.

After much thought (and deliberation), I decided to make her a bag so that when she went out to make "deliveries", she would be carrying the cookies in something cute. My first thought was a tablecloth for when the troop does sales in front of stores but at $10 a yard, I decided a bag would be much better use of the fabric.
So here is the bag... Ta Da!!!! I pretty much made it freehand without a pattern (don't recommend that).

First, I added fusible fleece to the back of the fabric and machine quilted horizontal lines, I wish I could say they are straight but you can certainly 'see' that they are NOT....lol. I had to embroider it 'somewhere' and since embroidery wouldn't really show up on such a busy pattern I decided to applique a square then do an appliqued M and name on top. The square is from GGDesigns in Australia, the M is a font from Planet Applique and the font on the name is by AKDesigns.

I made the bag gussetted by adding a brown gingham coordinating fabric to allow enough space to carry 7-8 boxes standing up.

I lined the bag in the same green gingham from the applique square and added velcro for easy closing and opening. I made the strap long and wide so it would be comfortable across the chest. I used the embroidery function on my new Janome machine to add a little personalization. Hopefully Micaela will stay in Girl Scouts for a long time and she can use this bag for delivering cookies many years to come. Thanks for stopping by!

Linking to Made by You Monday at Skip to My Lou