My daughter has been in love with ballet for quite awhile now, and it seems like we spend more and more time at ballet practices and programs. We used to just throw her stuff in whatever bag that was laying around the house, and I would always see all of the cute ballet bags at the studio and contemplate spending way too much money to get her one. Until today. I finally decided that I would attempt to make her a bag myself. I remembered that I had kept her backpack from preschool and thought it would be a perfect size. It is just a little bit smaller than regular size backpacks, so it is perfect. This is what it looked like to begin with:
I decided that a ballet bag definitely had to have ribbons and fuzziness, so I dolled it up a little bit more. I started out by taking a cute piece of fabric and sewing it to the front pocket.
I also found some super fuzzy yarn and crocheted it into a single chain and placed it all around the edges of the fabric. This not only made it cute, but it also made it unnecessary for the fabric to be absolutely perfect on the seams of the bag.
I definitely wanted to put a cute little ballerina on the bag, but I had one problem. I recently ran across a way to be able to run fabric through your printer to print directly on it, and I thought this was a brilliant idea. The directions said that you need freezer paper and a spray adhesive agent. The only problem was I didn't have either of those things, so I decided to improvise. I used a 4x6 piece of photo paper and sprayed it with hairspray before laying my piece of fabric on it. I then cut the fabric so that it was perfectly the same size as the photo paper. And then I said a prayer....It worked!
Add a little pink ribbon as an outline and tada, cute little ballerina :)
Of course I had to add a bow for my princess. I changed her embroidered name from purple to black with a black sharpie, and it worked out so well.
Claire's new bag. I hope she likes it! A cute bag for a cute little ballerina.
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