When I was a little girl I remember hanging out the laundry with my mother and my grandmother. I think I probably was more in the way than anything but it’s a happy memory and now, I hang my clothes out to dry by choice. Just not in the winter because that is just crazy.
My grandmother had a little clothes pin bag that was made out of a baby girl dress. Since I don’t have any baby girl dresses around, I had to improvise.
Materials
Wire clothes hanger
fabric
I bent my hanger up a little so it wasn’t quite so wide. I didn’t need a bag that big. After you have your hanger bent into shape lay it on the fabric.
I folded my fabric in half, wrong sides together and just drew the shape free hand. I left the bottom of the fabric folded and just cut out the sides, making sure to mark how much space I needed for the hanger at the top.
Cut a circle, oval, square, any shape you want really, out of the front of the bag, this is how you will get the pins in and out.
Clip around the opening you’ve made and iron this to the wrong side to make a finished edge for the opening. You can also use bias tape but I didn’t have any and didn’t want to make any so I just folded and finished the edge. Sew this in place.
Fold the top over and hem. Lay the fabric down, right sides together and pin, when you get to the bottom fold the bottom up about an inch and a half, but make the fold inside the two pieces of fabric. The bottom will look like the letter W from the sides.
When you are finished pinning, start sewing. Start on one side at the bottom and sew to where you marked the opening for the hanger. Do the other side.
Turn it inside out, insert your hanger, bending as needed, fill with clothes pins and you’re done! The fold at the bottom makes the bottom stay open instead of just hanging flat.
Once I finished this I realized you could use it for other things, like Legos or Polly Pocket dolls, or a million other little things you need a place for.