I remember having these in primary school. We could choose our own colour: blue, green, yellow or pink. They stored all of our stationery and any loose papers ready to take home each night. At the end of the day, we had to tidy our tables and collect our notices, then the chair bags were emptied of the day's work into our bags before heading home.
Now, I must say that these would have been much better made with a thicker cotton (such as drill), but all I had available was an old single sheet picked up from the op-shop for a couple of dollars. Even calico would do the trick really well. So, I'm probably going to have to remake these within a year as the corners could wear really quickly. No matter, though.
Oh .. and a plain colour is best for these. If you used patterned fabric, remember that with these instructions, you'll have the wrong side facing for either the top part of the bag, which could work out okay if that's what you desire.
So, here's a quick summary of what I did to make these:
- I folded the single sheet into quarters and cut (so essentially, I could make 4 chairbags from this $3 sheet).
- Each piece had the shorter ends folded over and seamed.
- Drape the fabric over the chair. Bring the fabric to where it comfortably sits about 20cm from where the seat starts and pin so it fits on the side seams. You don't want this too be too snug, so allow 2-3cms each side.
- Sew these side seams. Invert and slip over the chair to check it fits okay.
- I then did a turned hem on the part that was going to fold back up to form the bag. Once that is done, fold and pin the bag part up. Sew together with a double line of topstitching for strength.
You can then applique, or have the children draw a design to decorate/personalise their bags using fabric paints, or like Mariposa did with textas/marker pens.
The children have their pencil cases, diaries and any loose papers in here now, saving space on the shelves and keeping each child's things separate.
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