EASY Valentines day treat hangers!

I am recycling this post from last year, I think these are so cute and fun, I wanted to share them again!  I am also going to make a couple more this year for some friends!

Yup, you read it right, this post is for an EASY valentines day treat bag... It may look complicated, but it really is very easy and FUN! I went to a 'Finish your Projects' ladies night at the local fabric store, and they taught us how to make these beauties, and I just had to share!

Isn't it so cute? Here is what you need, this is a great project to use up some of those fabric scraps you have lying around!

Items Needed:

1- 16" by 2" rectangle, for strap
1- 5" by 5" square, for picot
2- 10" by 10" squares cut into half-square triangles, for cone

Step 1: Make Strap

 
a) Press (Iron) the 16" by 2" piece of fabric in half lengthwise, to make a seam.
b) Open up fabric, and fold one edge of the fabric into the seam you created in the first step and press.
c) Fold the other edge of the fabric into the seam, and press.
d) Fold the fabric down the seam you made in the first step with folded edges together.
e) Sew down the sides of the straps about 1/8" in, I used my stitch in the ditch edge foot on my sewing machine because I am lucky enough to have one!
f) This is what your finished strap should look like.

Step 2: Make Picot

Don't you love the word picot, it is so fancy! And I better talk it up because it took me FOREVER, to figure out how to spell it! It might be a fancy word, but they are super easy to make.
a) Take your 5" x 5" square and fold it in half to make a triangle.
b) Picture of square folded in half once.
c) Fold the triangle one more time to make another triangle. All of the raw edges of your fabric should be on one side of the triangle.

Step 3: Put it all together!

a) Line up the center of the long side of one of the half square triangles, to the center of the long side of the picot.
b) Place straps on both sides of the picot. Baste the picot, and the strap onto your half-square triangle with your sewing machine, so you know they will stay put.
c) Place the other half-square triangle on top of the triangle you just basted the picot and strap to. Sew together at the long edge.
d) Your carrier should now look like a square.
e) Fold square together with right sides touching to form a triangle. (see pic)
f) Pin edges, and sew raw edges together leaving a 1 1/2" opening on the fabric you would like to be the inner material of the carrier.
g) Picture of edges sewn together, leaving a small opening in which to turn your fabric. Trim the points of the triangle, to make it easier to turn right-side out.
h) Turn fabric right-side out.
i) Press. Wow, your almost done!
j) Add bling to your picot. I made a heart out of left over material, and used heat and bond to place the heart on the picot. I put a decorative edge around my heart, and hot-glued a bow on to the heart. You can be creative as you want on this part, some of the ladies at the class I went to made yo-yo's which looked adorable as well!

Now all you have to do is fill with some of your favorite treats, and you are finished! What a great fast, fun, and easy project.. I made a few of these to give to the friends I visit teach, and I am also planning on making a couple more for Valentines gifts for my parents and in-laws. Just another way to share the love!

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