Easy Drawstring Bags in Spectrum Cotton

In a handful of your favorite colors, our Easy Drawstring Bags bring unexpected satisfaction to all sorts of practical tasks: gift wrapping, project transport, suitcase organization, and lots more!

We revisit our Easy Drawstring Bags whenever a fabric strikes our fancy, and this newest incarnation in our garment-dyed Spectrum Cotton may be our most joyful yet. There are so many beautiful colors that picking the palette is like growing a fairy forest of toadstools!

These bags are super simple, but detailed enough to actually be useful. The design includes a channel at the top for the drawstrings and little gussets at the bottom for a nice, plump shape. Plus, the free pattern includes five different sizes, from itty bitty to big papa, making them perfect for holding just about anything!

The Easy Drawstring Bag is an ace organizer and gives any single-use bag a run for its money, but it really shines during the holidays. Whip up a set as a gift in its own right, or use them as gifts-within-a-gifts, filled with a skein or two of yarn, a bundle of fat quarters, or… something you’ve made yourself!

Materials

To make a size X-Small (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large) Easy Drawstring Bag, you’ll need…

• 1/4 (1/4, 1/2, 1/2, 1/2) yard of Purl Soho’s Spectrum Cotton. We used Yellow Ochre, Raincoat Yellow, Pink Tulip, Terra Cotta, Orange Nasturtium, Orange Coral, and Duck Egg Blue.
• A 110-yard spool of Gutermann’s Cotton Sewing Thread to coordinate with the fabric. We used colors 1685, 1620, 5030, 1800, 1720, 4930, and 7730.
• 2 (2, 2, 3, 3) yards of Studio Carta’s Fettuccia Ribbon, 1/4 inch in Natural
• Our free Easy Drawstring Bag pattern

Update, May 2024: You can explore our current collection of beautiful fabrics and supplies on our page of Sewing Tools + Notions!

Sizes

X-Small (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large)

Finished Dimensions…

• X-Small: 5 1/2 inches wide x 3 3/4 inches tall x 2 1/2 inches deep
• Small: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches
• Medium: 11 1/2 x 9 x 4 inches
• Large: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 5 inches
• X-Large: 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 6 inches

Pattern

For the free pattern, please visit our original Easy Drawstring Bag story.