Snack Pack Tutorial

I want to say first that this is not my pattern! 
I got it from Pinterest, of course, but I just simplified her instructions. 

A few of my friends asked for this, so here it is:

1. Pick your fabric. Cut into 4 squares.  Two for the liner and two for the outside. You can cut the squares as big as you want, depending on how big of a snack bag you want. Mine are a little smaller than a sandwich-sized ziplock bag and I cut my squares 7"x6.5". 

2. Iron all of the fabric. I usually skip this step because I have a baby around my ankles, but it's really important that you do this to make sure the fabric lines up and doesn't shrink.

3. Next you're going to attach the velcro to the liner fabric (the purple one, for me). If you've got really steady hands and the patience for pinning, God bless you. I don't. I used Stitch Witchery. Have you heard of it? I'm sure you pro sewers haven't- it's cheating. I have it in my sewing closet, but I haven't ever used it before this project. It's the easiest thing for getting velcro straight and secure. For me, anyway. So. Whip out your stitch witchery and cut a piece the width of the top of the liner fabric. Same for your velcro strip. 

4. Place the stitch witchery (or pins, if you're awesome) & velcro about a quarter-inch from the top of the liner fabric. 

If you used stitch witchery, flip the fabric over carefully and iron-on the velcro. 

Make sure you keep it straight! 

 Ok. Your liners should look like this when you are done.

Make sure the velcro and fabric still line up! 

5. Even if you used SW, you still need to stitch the velcro on. If you don't it'll likely pull off after a few uses. It'll be easier now, though. SW will at least hold it into place for you. 

6. Now you will attach the outside fabric. Place the liner fabric on your workspace velcro side up and place the outside fabric right-side down on top of it. Like this: 

Make sure they all line up. You will need to pin where the top of the velcro is, and sew about a quarter inch from there. Depending where you want the seam on the inside. 

7. After you sew that straight across just flip the liner fabric out so you can see the seam. 

Iron out that seam as flat as you can. 

Flip the seam over and iron the seam again from the other side, too. 

***Repeat steps 1-7 with the other 2 pieces of liner fabric/outside fabric***

8. Put the two liner pieces together via the velcro. Make sure all the fabric still lines up (doesn't have to be perfect, but pretty close)

9. Separate the liner and outside fabrics on your workspace. Like this: 

10. Ok. Starting at the top where the velcro is, sew all the way around the liner fabric. (Duh. Do not sew the side with the velcro.) 

If you want to check and see that you did it right, this is what it should look like so far: 

You should be able to open the pouch and the liner of the bag is finished! 

11. Now, flip it back how it was and get ready to sew the outside part. Do the exact same thing you did with the liner except you'll need to leave a little gap in the bottom to pull the right-side through. 

I stopped it about here from both sides. 

12. Flip the whole deal inside-out through that little hole. 

Your snack pack should look like this:

13. Stitch up that little hole. I'm no good and middle stitches, so I just did a top stitch all the way across the bottom to close it up. 

All done! Your snack pack is awesome and ready to hold whatever little goodies you want it to. 

Hope this helps (the three of you who asked for it:) It takes about 20 minutes sans baby and picture taking. I am about to make one hundred of these. They're so easy and so efficient. 

Until Next Time, 

The Guff