Friendship + Sewing + Giveaway + Tutorial!
February 17th, 2012
A while back ago I saw my friend Megan sporting the cuuuuuu-test little bag she made. And when I say saw - I mean I was formulating a plan on how to swipe it from her. But it turns out, Meg tells me - is my friend Ayumi of Pink Penguin has a tutorial for the Lunchbox bag and I could make one myself. So excited to be able to make one too, though I still toyed with The Great Lunchbox Bag Heist of 2010.
>>> fast forward sound >>>
So I’m putzing around Pinterest. And when I say putzing, I mean I’m on Pinterest for my 3rd or 4th time that day… and I spot a Lunchbox bag made by Erin and immediately show Lori (or maybe Lori saw my pin or I tagged her on the pin, I can’t remember - it was all very exciting + plus I’m forgetful), and the next thing we know we’re swapping fabric! Lori sends me some of her Sew Cherry, and I send her some of my Happy Mochi Yum Yum. And then I GO TO TOWN and start on a Lunchbox bag making frenzy! Lori, in Utah, and I in Oregon - we were sewing together via our iPhones - texting each other and sending pics as we’re sewing. It was the next best thing to being actually together. Sometimes I marvel at how technology, in all it’s high techness - can be all about friendship, and goodness, and being the closest we can get to beaming ourselves places.
Lori and I said we’d send each other 5 fat quarters, but she went all Oprah on me and sent me a package-full-o-goodies! Sew Cherry fat quarters, an apron kit with her Sew Cherry and apron pattern, a tomato pincushion kit (her tutorial here) and one of her signature Big Cherry candies… it was all so weepy cute and generous.
Lori even made me a needlebook!
The lunchbox bag in Lori’s Sew Cherry fabric:
In Denyse Schmidt’s fabric (for Joann’s). One thing Lori and I did different from Ayumi’s pattern was to do our straps in one fabric vs two. A bee flew in my bonnet, and I got an idea to put the twill tape that’s wrapped around the Moda pre-cuts inside my handles to make them beefy. I LOVE my handles with the twill tape inside! Now all my bags will have a little Moda happiness inside each bag. I have been saving this twill tape over the years and have amassed quite a large volume of it. Which is scary to think I’ve used, acquired and bought that much fabric Yay, good for me that I’ve sewn so much!
Here’s one in Pam Kitty Morning fabric. Turns out Lori and I made the same one! Probably because we love Pam so much and we were channeling her. I did make my PKM bag a little smaller - I was playing around with different sizes. Because I love to nest stuff - my self diagnosed Matryoshka-itis.
Here’s one in my Happy Mochi Yum Yum fabric. So to drag everyone into our web of Lunchbox bag making frenzy goodness - Lori and I are both doing a giveaway of a 5pk fat quarter bundle (plenty to make a Lunchbox bag), plus I’ve added my new signature candy - a box of Botan Rice Candy (mochi candy) and a pack of Doublemint gum (WTH?).
I’ve loved Botan Rice Candy ever since I was kid (our class had gone on a field trip to San Francisco’s Japan Town for the day), especially since you can eat the “Saran Wrap” paper wrapper that’s outside the candy. There’s also a pack of Doublmint gum - you can hop over to Lori’s blog and read about it’s meaning.
To enter, leave a comment (maybe you’d like to share what your signature candy is?) just before Midnight-ish Monday (2/20/12 PST), and I’ll announce the winner Tuesday morning. And by morning I mean around lunch-time. Be sure to hop over to Lori’s blog for a chance to win a Sew Cherry bundle (and candy) from her! Happy Lunchboxing!!
February 21, 2012 Edited in:
Winner, winner! The fat quarter bundle of HMYY give-away has now ended. Thank you all for joining in on the give-away! Using random.org for comments 1-551, the winner of the bundle is: #415 (which ironically is the area code for San Francisco) - Robyn!
Thank you everyone for your kinds words (and making me hungry for candy!) and playing along with Lori and me. And thank you most of all to Ayumi - sweet, sweet Ayumi, for sharing her beautiful pattern with us. I got a lot of comments about the Botan Rice Candy, and I don’t know if this is a West Coast thing - but you can find it in the Asian section of your local grocery store. Even in my teenie little Scandinavian town of Astoria - I can find it at my local Safeway and Fred Meyer. Oh Lewis & Clark, you came 200 years too soon and missed out.
Posted in Make Something |
Farting around with needle & thread and then blogging about it.
Those are the cutest lunchboxes ever! I LOVE any of the Reese’s holiday shapes - trees, eggs, pumpkins, hearts etc. Has to be the shapes since they have way more peanut butter and *gasp* less chocolate :)
February 17th, 2012I used to absolutely love boston baked beans. Now I am more into cadbury mini eggs and creme eggs - which we only get at easter.
February 17th, 2012Love Botan Rice Candy! These bags are too cute, have to make some this weekend. Thanks for the chance to win.
February 17th, 2012i love tootsie rolls. but i think my absolute favorite is the little crunchy cadberry eggs they only have at easter. robin’s eggs?. whatever they are called they are pure wonderful candy crack.
February 17th, 2012Love Strawberry and Bananna Kits. That was the BEST penny candy when I was growing up.
Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012Gorgous bags and thanks for the tutorial hint! My favorite candy is all with chocolate and I love to switch candies (one of the reasons why I need a big candy drawer, right?;-)
February 17th, 2012Greetings from germany, Hildy
My favorite candy as of late has been Dark Chocolate Salted Caramels from Costco. Of course you can’t get a small container of them… and then you can’t eat just one. I like to think of it as sewing nutrition. Love your lunch bags!
February 17th, 2012Smarties! When my brother and I were little our dad would take us to the comic book store and buy us comics and Smarties by the handfuls. To this day every time I see Smarties I think of those times.
February 17th, 2012let’s see… big hunk, 100 grand and caramel. the first two would also be nice in real life :)
February 17th, 2012such a fun and sweet story and giveaway!
February 17th, 2012I love York Peppermint Patties. I think everyone who knows me knows that…it’s that bad!
February 17th, 2012How perfect - to take to workshops, etc. Lovely. My signature candy is dark chocolate Wilbur Buds.
February 17th, 2012My favourite candy at the moment is 100 calorie chocolate bars by Cadbury. All my pants seem to have shrunk overnight and something must be done to rectify the situation, lol.
I have a lovely bag made with Ayumi’s tutorial - it’s in pink flamingo fabrics - my friend made it as a gift for me, and I use it for carrying ongoing craft projects when I’m out and about!
February 17th, 2012LOVELY!!! I think my signature candy would be “smarties”, they’re certainly my absolute favorite! :D
February 17th, 2012I’ll eat a Snickers bar any time, any place! L-o-v-e them! Won’t turn down pretzel M&Ms either. Those lunch bags are awesome and what a great suggestion to put the twill tape in the handles. Thanks for that!
February 17th, 2012OMG, these are the cutest bags ever! I need to make many. I would have to say Ghiradelli 60% dark chcolate bar is my favorite, and swedish fish.
February 17th, 2012I’ve had my eye on that awesome bag tutorial and now you’ve swayed me completely. I just have to make one for myself. Yours are gorgeous. I love any candy that has chocolate in it…yesterday it was peanut M&M’s.
February 17th, 2012I’m loving yours and Lori’s bags! Anything with peanut butter is my signature candy, LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEEEE peanut butter!
February 17th, 2012Oh I would live to win one! I very happily eat any candy with nuts in it. :)
February 17th, 2012Love the lunch bag, but especially love the idea of doing a sew-a-long with a friend miles away! Plan to copy you and Lori’s experience with a quilting buddy that recently moved away. Thanks for the inspiration!
February 17th, 2012I totally need one of those lunchboxes in my life. I just use target/publix bags…I’m sure it makes my lunch sad. I think my signature candy is Junior Mints, I picked up the habit of crafting with them nearby in college and now can’t do without.
February 17th, 2012I love pure milk chocolate - yum!! Those bags are just too stinkin’ cute - love ‘em!! Thanks for the chance!!
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is red and black licorice vines (one of each) eaten together. The bags are so fun and fresh.
February 17th, 2012I love those Chocolate Ice Cube candies that melt in your mouth and are just creamy and delicious. Haven’t seen them in awhile, probably in my waistline’s best interests…
These bags are so cute!
February 17th, 2012My fave candy is LemonHeads, mmmm used to get me a package from the ice cream man every other day! I will still buy them when I can find them. Thanks for the chance!
February 17th, 2012Love this giveaway!!! Botan rice candy sounds fun. :)
February 17th, 2012Those are the cutest lunchboxes EVER. I have officially pinned pretty much every tutorial from Pink Penguin
February 17th, 2012Those are ADORABLE!!! I love them! My favorite candy is Reese Cups…and I agree with Kelsey…the shapes are THE BEST!
February 17th, 2012I L-O-V-E Lemonheads! What cute bags you both made. My best friend and I quilt and stitch together via text and phone calls! We always joke about how great technology is for crossing the miles.
February 17th, 2012My fave candy flavour is mint . thanks for the chance to win :)
February 17th, 2012Those are stinkin’ adorable! I’ve made a few lunch bags from Ayumi’s tute and I love them. My signature candy has to be Lindt chocolate! A forever weakness ;)
February 17th, 2012My usual go-to for candy is Peanut Butter M&Ms, but right now we’re eating all healthy (aka boring) so my current signature “candy” is dried pineapple. :)
February 17th, 2012I am dying to make one of those bags! As I said over at Bee in my Bonnet, this would be the perfect excuse (and give me some great fabric) to do so! Thanks for the chance!
February 17th, 2012I have a soft spot for a candy called Turkey Joints. They’re sold out of a store in New York and a family friend used to bring them to us. Now you can order them online, which is very dangerous for me.
February 17th, 2012Love the sugar free chocolate from Amber Lynne. The truffles are amazing. Love the cute bag! Thanks for the giveaway!
February 17th, 2012SO SO SO CUTE!
February 17th, 2012i have seen this tutorial, but never done it…so darling in your fabric choices! i love Charlestown Chews!
I’d love this fat quarter pack!!! So vibrant and lively :)
February 17th, 2012I am new to sewing and I love all the fabrics. I am going to try making one of those bags.
February 17th, 2012Seriously, this is my type of sewing with a friend. My girlfriend and I IM all day long at work giggling about our next quilting project…I blog about mine, she sends me pictures…we have a great time, and we are always working on something fun!
February 17th, 2012Your bags are the cutest! Think I’ll pick up my favorite “bullseye” caramel candy to chew while making some bags.
February 17th, 2012The bags are terrific! Sixlets are my favorite….takes me right back to the Dime Store of my childhood!
February 17th, 2012I’m a chocolate girl myself…so probably a Hersey bar with almonds OR a Snicker!!
Thanks for offering the give away…
KD
February 17th, 2012I love the fabric and I also love French Chews … a vanilla taffy. Yummy for my tummy!
February 17th, 2012Thanks for the generosity! Pretty sure my favorite candy is Whoppers :)
February 17th, 2012I love your idea with the drawstring bags and I´m going to make my own. Thanks for the wonderful idea and your giveaway. Your bags are wonderful in all the beautiful colors.
February 17th, 2012Swedish fish and whoppers. Yummmmm. Swedish fish would make a cute fabric print.
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is robin’s eggs. I know they are nearly the same as whoppers, but they just taste so much better. And I REALLY want some happy mochi yum yum!
February 17th, 2012I’ve made one of those bento box lunch bags using 2 tea towels- but I gave it away- so now I need to make me one.
February 17th, 2012I love any pink Jelly Belly.
Well, I don’t like candy, but I LOVE your fabric, so count me in! I’m also a big fan of bringing my own lunches, so I’m all over that tutorial, thanks!
February 17th, 2012I’m a big ol’ sucker for lemonheads. Love ‘em. I’ve never tried the Botan Rice Candy, but would love to win so I can try it! Thanks for the inspiration because these lunch bags are awesome!
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is the Cadbury creme egg!! Love them!
February 17th, 2012I haven’t had that rice candy since I was a kid! Love your bags and what a great giveaway!
February 17th, 2012My “signature” candy will probably always be Reeses Peanut Butter cups… with sour pickles from the big barrel and Big Red to drink - I dont know why the combo, but I love it :)
Those lunch bags are too cute, and such happy fabric! Thank you for the chance to win some :)
February 17th, 2012Cutest bags EVER!
February 17th, 2012I hope my favorite candy doesn’t give my age away!
Good N Plenty! I also love Black Jack gum! I am old!
Favorite candy…hmmmm…has to be “DOTS”! I know they are boring (and kinda gross if you don’t like gumdrops), but for some reason I just love them! I think it is because my Gramma always kept them on those plastic gumdrop trees in her kitchen. Thanks for the nostalgia and the giveaway. Those bags are adorable!
February 17th, 2012I love Rice Candy, too! Here in Hawaii we get the Tomoe Ame brand, but it’s pretty much the same thing :) My favorite though is White Rabbit Candy-microwaved for a few seconds to get it nice and soft.
February 17th, 2012Adorable!!! I’ve made a couple too and they are really fun! I don’t have a signature candy but now I think I need one!!
February 17th, 2012Ohhh, I’d love to win! If only to try that candy!
February 17th, 2012Oh my! Those bags are adorable. My all time favorite candy is probably a Zero candy bar. They can be a bit hard to find where I live but oh so good.
February 17th, 2012Hadn’t heard of Botan Rice candy before,so I’d love to try some. My favourite sweet treat is chocolate covered peanuts which I buy in bulk!Thanks for a great giveaway!
February 17th, 2012what did you use for batting? I’ve been musing using warm & natural because I have it…or did you just use the interfacing?
February 17th, 2012Chocolate covered pretzels…and Reese peanut butter cups.
These bags are so adorable! I guess my signature candy would have to be M&M’s. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012I love the bags that you and Lori made. It makes me want one! I would love to win the fabric and goodies. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012The bags are ridiculously cute, I love Ayumi’s tutorials. I’ve made too many of her fabric baskets. They are all over my house. My signature candy? Hmmmm what Canadian yummy can I make you drool over? Floral gums, also known as soap candies, which I believe are actually British…..
February 17th, 2012These bags are adorable!
I’ve always been a peanut butter cup person.
February 17th, 2012What a fun post - how great to have this technology available to us to be able to do such fun stuff with those so far away! My signature candy would be just about anything chocolate, nothing really stands out, just whatever I’m craving at the moment! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
February 17th, 2012I love Andes Candies-anything chocolate and mint! The bags are adorable. Thanks!
February 17th, 2012I love Dove Dark Chocolate.
February 17th, 2012Such cute bags! I love Kit Kats, or kitty cats as my daughter likes to call them. :-)
February 17th, 2012Havent thought of this in years but…Sugar Babies”. Blessings, Marlene
February 17th, 2012Idaho spuds! If you have never had one.. you gotta try it! Its the best, you dont even realize it has real potato in it! Its coco-nutty and chocolate. The best!!
February 17th, 2012Oh my oh my! Those bags are fabulously adorable! If I had one it would be filled with Jelly Bellys and dark chocolate.
February 17th, 2012I loved Bonkers (cherry flavour) as a kid, I haven’t seen that type of candy in forever so maybe they don’t make it anymore. Nowadays, I love Mike and Ike candy!
February 17th, 2012I love heath bars because I am a big fan of toffee. :) Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012I love Reese’s peanut butter cups but with a kid who is allergic to peanuts I rarely eat them anymore.
February 17th, 2012mine would be green and black’s 70% dark chocolate. i know, i am indulgent.
February 17th, 2012I’m trying SO hard to resist buying a leather Wendy Williams bag on QVC. Perhaps making one of these will quench my rare handbag appetite for today! :) they are SOOOOO cute!
February 17th, 2012I love anything dark chocolate.. = ) so not really a signature one.
February 17th, 2012I am a Twizzlers girl. Love them. Also, I have made this Lunchbox bag and it is great!
February 17th, 2012Favourite candy … that’s even harder than favourite food. Uhmm home made vanilla ice cream … and storebough, I just discovered cadbury mini rolls (which is nooot good for me)
February 17th, 2012Peanut M&Ms!!! Love that candy. Feb 21st is my husband’s 50th birthday, so with some luck I’ll win the fabric. I love what you did with the lunchbox bags!!!
February 17th, 2012I love Buckeyes! It’s a peanut butter confection covered in chocolate and popular in Ohio, of course!
February 17th, 2012I love your bags. They are so cute. I love chocolate coated coffee beans. Thanks for the great giveaway.
February 17th, 2012Your bags are wonderful! Thank you for the chance to win the fat quarters and the candy. I’ve never heard of botan rice candy! Who knew???? My favrotie candy at the moment is the Lindt dark chocolate truffles - the one’s in the black bag???? Oh my! lol
February 17th, 2012Tootsie Rolls and anything with chocolate and orange.
I love these bags! I love the fabric!
February 17th, 2012I have become known for wanting darker and darker chocolate lol My favourite now is about 76% :) Along with anything covered in dark chocolate…fruit, caramel, pretzels….oh boy time to go get a snack haha
February 17th, 2012I Love these lunchboxes. Must make them. Make many of them!
February 17th, 2012I love any candy make with chocolatey goodness.
Those bags turned out so cute! I have had that project pinned for way too long, maybe I better get to it!! I like all candy, but chick-o-sticks are one of my favorite!!
February 17th, 2012Looks super cute, and so does your sewing room!
February 17th, 2012I love those lunchbox bags! Adorable! As for signature candy, I would probably say Reese’s or Junior Mints! YUMMY!
February 17th, 2012Really nice bags! Chocolate kisses. I know what you mean about friendship online. I can have a pretty crappy day and those peeps can cheer you up. I know having just a little peek into your happy studio can cheer me.
February 17th, 2012I love, love, love these cute little bags. And Ayumi’s tutorial looks so easy, which means I’m going to have to make myself one? Well, maybe two. I love jelly beans, so I’d be filling my bag with red and green ones.
February 17th, 2012Yes please! Love the fabric & the bags! I love when two talented people get together and make something wonderful! My favorite candy is Almond Joy! A perfect mix of coconut & chocolate!
February 17th, 2012You are too cute! Love the inspiration and thank you so much for the giveaway! I have never had rice candy - but my all time fave is a Heath Bar or Skor! :o) Chocolate is my go to on a bad day… good day… and everything in between! I enjoy reading your blog! ;O)
February 17th, 2012Another candy I’ve never seen before, but I do know about mochi because my niece recently visited Japan and wrote about this rice candy on her travel blog. I suppose my signature candy is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Yum!
Love your bags. Using twill tape inside the bag handles is a brilliant idea.
February 17th, 2012My signature candy seems to be “Big Turk” - either the chocolate bar or the mini bites. Have always loved them, and seeing as most people REALLY dislike them, they like to give them to me.
Love to win the fabric.
February 17th, 2012How cute! I’d love to win. My favorite all time candy is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I try never to get them, and now that my son is allergic to Peanuts it’s sure to never enter our house. Sigh… It’s okay.
February 17th, 2012Love the Ghiradelli (sp?) dark chocolate & raspberry squares! Yum!! All the bags are so cute. I adore the one in your fabric. I haven’t found it around here.:( I don’t know why, but I just love making bags.
February 17th, 2012Yikes…these are so cute! Now I’m going to have to make a few too!
February 17th, 2012I’m a Reese’s peanut butter cup, Butterfingers or peeps kind of girl. But, I think that my signature candy would have to be Altoids. they are much easier on the waistline. ;)
February 17th, 2012I made a round one of these for a granddaughter for Christmas but I didn’t realize they were called lunch box bags. Love the fabric you used and would LOVE to have some. TY
February 17th, 2012The bags are fantastic, I love your style and fabric choices! awesome.
My fav treats are soft sugar coated fruit jubes..
Thanks :) take care, Mel
February 17th, 2012What darling bags! All of them are cute. Maybe they can come and play at my house? :-) I really like peanut butter m&m’s. Thanks for the fun give away! K-
February 17th, 2012Signature candy - anything hot and cinnamony - probably Hot Tamales are my favorite that I am willing to pay for.
February 17th, 2012SUCH cute bags! Signature candy? Hmmmm. Probably Heath bars.
February 17th, 2012The bags are ADORABLE!! I will make one of these for sure. I love Reeses. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012Those are such cute bags, made even cuter by the fabrics you used!!
February 17th, 2012My current favorite candy would be bite size Take-5. I don’t know why they taste better to me in miniature. :)
Love that idea for using the Moda Twill Tape. I too save mine…and have been trying to think of something extra fun/special to use them on.
February 17th, 2012Who are we kidding, I love ALL candy, even black licorice…..but I really like to get creatures with marshmallow inside and chocolate all over and bite the heads off first mmmmmm marshmallow…I regularly go on holidays to purchase them from walgreens with the excuse that I had to go pick up a prescription then eat them in the car and not share with the kids….
February 17th, 2012I’d love this fat quarter pack!!! Would love to win .-)
February 17th, 2012Any Reese’s has to be my signature candy. Adorable bags!
February 17th, 2012I LOVE these bags must try to make one or two! I have a thing for bags. My candy fix I get w Sweet Tarts, chewy or hard, all work for me!
February 17th, 2012I love those adorable bags! I love banana Laffy Taffies.
February 17th, 2012I adore peanut butter M&Ms and plain old milk chocolate of any brand. In fact I am hard pressed to name a chocolate that I don’t like.
February 17th, 2012They are absolutely the cutest lunch bags ever!
My favorite candy treat are the caramels with the sugary cream in the middle. Every couple of months I bug a bag and indulge a coupel at a time. Yum!
February 17th, 2012Love the lunch bags - checking out that tutorial now :)
I like Mint 3 Muskateers (not sure how to spell that)!
February 17th, 2012Oh! SO cute! I have got to give these adorable lunch bags a try. BTW, my all-time favorite candies are York Peppermint Patties!,
February 17th, 2012What cute bags! They’d be perfect for carrying projects on-the-go and are oh so darling in all of those prints. Hmm, favorite candy? I’ve always had a thing for peanut M&Ms since I was a little girl. My stepdad would come home from the graveyard shift and leave bags of M&Ms on our pillows so we’d see them when we woke up. :-)
February 17th, 2012way to go! what an amazing time you both have had with these lunchbox bags! i feel the itch starting so tutorial is downloading as i type :) thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
February 17th, 2012I once had a Man From Uncle lunchbox when I was a kid. Loved that lunchbox. It disappeared in one of our family’s many moves. (Still pouting about it today.) However, Ayumi’s lunch box in Happy Mochi Yum Yum, filled with a Miracle Whip sandwich, Rt 10 potato chips, a banana and a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup would soothe my heart greatly!
February 17th, 2012What a fun lunch bag idea!! I’ve already bookmarked the tutorial page and want to make some too. (And I’ve thought of makeing some of them bigger, to hold quilting hand sewing projects.) Love your fabrics!!! I’m going to have to subscribe to your blog, cause I’ve been here before :-)
February 17th, 2012cute bags! I love your fabric, so thanks for the chance at a giveaway.
February 17th, 2012Favorite candy is ANYTHING with peanut butter and chocolate in it!!
Oh my - cuteness little lunchboxes EVER! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
February 17th, 2012Loving the lunchboxes! I am starting a quilt with the Happy Mochi fabric this weekend. So excited!!!
February 17th, 2012I love your fabric and the fabric makes the bag. Your bags are the cutest I have seen. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent.
February 17th, 2012What an adorable bag! My favourite candy right now is salted caramel. I would love to try making one of the bags!
February 17th, 2012Pretty sure I kept the Twix factory in business over the past coupla years! I loved reading about your happy bag sew along from blog to blog and state to state;-) Maybe someday I’ll find an internet bff to sew along with and send candy to! Lucky.
February 17th, 2012Wow! This post is all kinds of fantastic!!! My signature candy is salty liquorice chocolate. Finnland: we’ve got long winters, but the candy rocks!!!
February 17th, 2012fabulous bags!! love them!! my favorite candy i’d be toting around in that fabulous bag are hersey kisses!
February 17th, 2012Love your bags and Lori’s!
February 17th, 2012I’m going to have to make one soonish!
Favourite candy…fresh, soft (not hard) jelly beans!!!
Love, love, love the bags.. and thanks for a chance at your give a way.. as for my candy choice.. peanut butter cups, buckeye’s, any thing with chocolate and peanut butter and I am in.
February 17th, 2012Those bags are adorable - your fabric choices make them especially happy! My favorite candy is a good old Hershey bar with almonds - yum!
February 17th, 2012fabulous bags!! love them!! my favorite candy i’d be toting around in that fabulous bag are hershey kisses!
February 17th, 2012I adore your lunch bags. I can just see each of my knitting projects in their own custom-made bags.
February 17th, 2012Of course, each of my project bags always a piece or two of chocolate.
So happy to have seen this post, Monica.
Aren’t these lunch bags the most adorable ever??? !!!! ♥ ♥ ♥
hugs
Gerry
great giveaway! I love the bags!
February 17th, 2012My favourite chocolates are peppermint aero bars and kit kats,love all your bags and what a great idea using the moda twill tape in your bag handles :) Barb.
February 17th, 2012Love those lunch bags! Something that cute might force me to take my lunch more often! My signature candy (at least the one I eat most) would have to be dark chocolate M&Ms.
February 17th, 2012These bags are adorable and I’d love to make one with your fabulous fabric! My signature candy is Junior Mints - love them.
February 17th, 2012Those lunch boxes are the cutest. My candy is m and m’s. The little figurines are cute too.
February 17th, 2012I love Jelly Belly Jellybeans!! Of course this may explain why I HAVE a jelly belly… eeek!!!
Thanks for the chance to win
February 17th, 2012Oh I love your bags! I can feel a DS bag in my future, especially as I have enough DS here to clothe my small town! I’d love to make a Happy Mochi bag too:) My signature candy (lolly for us aussies) would have to be Fruchocs! Delicious little pieces of dried fruit (so they must be good for you!) coated in a thick layer of chocolate - a South Australian treat!
February 17th, 2012Those bags are so cute! Thanks for a chance to win some fabric to make one. My signature candy is m&m’s because my DH and my first name both start with M. We refer to ourselves as M & M sometimes!
February 17th, 2012Can’t wait to make up these bags; too cute! Really like the idea of putting the Moda strips inside handles.
February 17th, 2012OH my they are sooooo Cute…. would love to make a few myself Amazing work! My favorite candy of late is a cranberry cluster It is Like a turtle but with cranberries and almonds Caramel and choc Of coarse. Next to that would be gummy bears!!!! Thanks for the chance to win
February 17th, 2012These are just so stinkin’ cute! I have to make some to give and at least one for me to hold my “Pearl Cotton” balls for my wool-works. I suppose my friends would say that my signature candy is “candy corn”. Love it! Can’t ever get enough of it! Kinda like my love for fabric! : D Thanks for sharing!
February 17th, 2012You two gals are a hoot!! Bags are just ‘SEW’ cute and I have the tutorial bookmarked but NEED fabric for a few. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012What darling bags– you can’t go wrong filling them with miniature Reese’s peanut butter cups!
February 17th, 2012Darling! Love the drawstring closure. I love Double Decker bars & Crunchie bars. My friend in Scotland keeps me well stocked on both.
February 17th, 2012I love all your lunch bags. I think I might make them as gift bags. My favorite candy is Milky Ways.
February 17th, 2012I hate to say this, I’m not a candy person - but I’d live on ice cream if the universe allowed. Specifically salty caramel gelato. My son LOVES the botan rice candy though. Those are the cutest damn bags ever, I have also envied Megan’s, now I’m going to try to car jack you for your bag. Don’t worry, I’ll dump the contents out in your car first… unless there’s fabric in there.
February 17th, 2012I love any kind of bag. I made some penny pockets after seeing them on your blog. They are supper fun to make.
February 17th, 2012I love this bags so much and can’t wait until Sunday when I can dive in and make some. My favorite candy….gotta be dark chocolate anything!
February 17th, 2012LOVE them all! My fave old candy was Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy in vanilla!
February 17th, 2012I love those lunch bags — so fun! Chocolate is my signature candy: Good expensive chocolate, I mean. YUM!
February 17th, 2012Love the bags!
February 17th, 2012Love the bags. My candy of choice is a Lindt Intense Orange chocolate bar or Mounds.
February 17th, 2012Sweet little bag! And with sweet in it!!!
February 17th, 2012this is such a nice giveaway-Thanks to you for sharing!
Oh I just love the bags! My favorite candy is a Dove chocolate. Love Dove! LOL Have a happy weekend!
February 17th, 2012I love the bags, and also the fabrics they were made with. *swoons*
My signature candies are M&Ms. I love those little buggers.
February 17th, 2012How fun! In college, my roommate nicknamed me “Tiffiefay” after the Toffifay candy, so I suppose that would be my signature candy! Sadly, I’ve only tried it once or twice. :( I better get on that.
February 17th, 2012Bags are really cute. My favorite is Estonian candy named Teekonna.
February 17th, 2012These are the cutest lunch bags and I need to make some! I think my signature candy would be something lemon-y, because I’m both sweet and tart.
February 17th, 2012I have to say that I Love Botan rice candy too! With their waxy little wrappers and free prize. I got excited when I saw it in the photo!
February 17th, 2012My favorite is the Chocolate covered marshmallow eggs. Loved it as a child and still do!!
February 17th, 2012What a great giveaway! My sister and I are just starting to attempt to make a bag or two. These Lunch bags are perfect!
Love the bags! Smarties are a must for me. :*)
February 17th, 2012As I told Lori, these are ADORABLE! Headed to the sewing room to have a go at a practice one….just in case I win!
February 17th, 2012Favorite candy, let’s see, at retreats it is Good n Plenty(hands stay clean), at home it is anything dark chocolate!!
Thank you for sharing this gorgeous bag! I’m really looking forward to making it!
As for yummy goodness, I go through phases… but I keep on coming back to those good old peanut M&Ms. I like the red and blue ones best! Yum!
February 17th, 2012Unbelievably cute…want to make some NOW! Thanks for sharing the lunchboxes and for the chance to win.
February 17th, 2012Wow that is so awesome, sewing friends are the best even if they are far away!
February 17th, 2012Favourite sweet/candy? I’m in the UK and I think it might just be Love Hearts!
thanks for a superb giveaway
Such cute bags! I wanna make one or 12!
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy would have to be PLAIN M & M’s, although I love so many different kinds of candy. Sour Cherry Balls, candy corn (but NOT Brach’s), Raisinette’s. I do NOT like peanuts IN my chocolate (ala Snickers or Peanut M&M’s) but I LOVE peanut butter (ala Reese’s PB cups.
So adorable! I love the fabrics you picked. So cheery and fun!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
February 17th, 2012Such cute bags and Fabrics that you remotely sewed with Lori. I’d be happy to take some off your hands. And even try the rice candy. My favorite is Lindor Milk Chocolate Truffles.
February 17th, 2012I love most sweets…especially marshmellows :)
February 17th, 2012I love reading about all of everyone’s favorite candies. This past year I introduced my 17 year old grandson to Botan Rice Candy “you really eat the wrapper??”. My favorite ’sewing’ candy has always been m&m’s - because they’re clean!
February 17th, 2012So so cute! I love Reese’s anything! Chocolate and Peanut-butter all the way!
February 17th, 2012What a lovely story, I so want to make one of these for my sister as she wanted a lunch bag for Christmas but I couldnt find one nice enough. My favourite candy? fererro rocher.
February 17th, 2012Great story! I completely get what you mean when you talk about hightech bringing people closer together. Amazing. Thanks for this great giveaway!
February 17th, 2012If you asked my husband what my signature candy was, he’d say marzipan! I LOVE anything almond and marzipan is a particular favorite!
February 17th, 2012I love them!!!! I am definitely going to try to make one! My favorite candy right now is homemade toffee that one of my clients makes…he also happens to be 98 years old!!! Lol :)
February 17th, 2012If I am going to eat candy these days, I go for the truly premium goodies–you know, dark chocolate, real cream and butter, etc. Usually expensive, too.
February 17th, 2012such fabulous bags monica - looks like you and Lori had a fun time making them :) my favourite lollies (candy) are Allen’s strawberries and cream - they’re very yummy !
February 17th, 2012I think the bags are adorable ! Got to get them in the queue. Peppermint patties are a favorite treat !
February 17th, 2012Love the fabric choices - the bags look so cheery and fun. Eating the wrapper is the part i remember most about trying rice candy.(oh and it is yummy good)
February 17th, 2012Those lunch box bags are awesome! I would totally have to make one for all my nieces, so 3!
February 17th, 2012I am not really into sweets…my signature food would be bread. I loves me some bread!
I tend to become obsessed with one kind of candy at a time. Over the years I’ve loved: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Heath bars, Wint-O-Green Lifesavers, Jelly Bellies, and Smarties. No rhyme or reason, it just happens!
Never tried Botan rice candies so I would be very interested in those. And the fabrics are delicious too, although in a different way. ;)
February 17th, 2012These bags are so-o-o cute! I have already seen Lori’s. Sounds like you two really had fun. Thanks for sharing!
February 17th, 2012Cute, cute, cute (can you tell that I like the lunch bags?) Happy Friday!
February 17th, 2012I’ve just come across your blog through Sew, Mama, Sew! and what a post to land on - it all looks so pretty. I remember when we were in primary school (about 10 years of age) we had sewing classes. The teacher taught us to make lunch bags BUT using an icecream container for the base - absolutely awful, anyway some kid from another class ended up taking mine before it was finished so I told the school I didn’t want to take that class anymore. I would happily sew at home but not in a class until I went to high school. Rambling - just wanted to say the bags are very cute ;)
February 17th, 2012What cute bags!!!
I love Hot Tamales and Peanut M&Ms. Yummm…
February 17th, 2012such sweet fabrics — and i really love the lunch bags, too! Air Heads are for me, anything taffy. thank you for this grand opportunity!
February 17th, 2012Those are the cutest bags, love the drawstring idea.
February 17th, 2012Thanks so much for this tutorial! I’ve been looking for something fun to make for a friend and this is it!
February 17th, 2012My signature candy? I guess if I’m standing at the check out counter and there happens to be some M&M’s, I’m more than likely to buy them!
Happy Day!
My signature candy would be homemade fudge with a chocolate layer and a butterscotch layer. Yum!
February 17th, 2012I made one of these bags out of recycled fused plastic bags. Yours are adorable. Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012Love the bags! You and Lori did a great job with them all.
February 17th, 2012I have been waiting all day for your post. I was so excited that two of my favorite bloggers teamed up! I had no idea I had a signature candy, but I do. It is Heinz Red Hot Dollars - which aren’t hot at all. ;)
February 17th, 2012Love everything about these! The fabrics, the pattern, with 195 comments before me do I have a chance? Maybe not, but I’m trying anyways:>)
February 17th, 2012I love these i saw the one on Lori’s site. I love all candy and i have no favorites. At summer time i go up to Wisconsin where i am a camp nurse and there i fell back in Love with Charleston Chews the chocolate one of course
February 17th, 2012This reminds me of a curler bag that my great grandmother use to make.
February 17th, 2012Those are too cute! If I had a signature candy it would be Cadbury Creme Eggs…I may have just bought 5, and you know I’m not waiting until Easter to eat them!
February 17th, 2012So cute!! I love the bags…I liked Hershey Kishes…:)
February 17th, 2012OHHHHH! So cute. i was just thinking about making a little bag from a pattern I have. Now I plan to use the one you suggest. Oh, I love Big Hunks. Thanks.
February 17th, 2012Very cute bags!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
February 17th, 2012I love those bags! I don’t know if I love the candy because I have never even heard of it before. My favorite candy is raspberries and blackberries - there isn’t a store around here that sells them, I have to wait till we go to Estes Park to get them - they are delicious!!!
February 17th, 2012my signature candy is … uhm … maybe cherry mash? or milky way? or necco wafers? or maybe peeps? queen anne chocolate covered cherries? york peppermint patties? or … maybe my signature candy is whatever is in my hand at the time…
February 17th, 2012My goodness, your bags are soooooo pretty! The fabric is cheery, you could never have a bad day working with such lovely prints! Can’t wait to try the tutorial! My signature candy is tic tacs!
February 17th, 2012I love wine gums… maybe they are just in Canada and Britain? Do you have wine gums? I don’t even like wine but I love this candy!
February 17th, 2012I don’t know that they are my favorite I really like Sixlets. When we were tweens I convinced my younger (and very gullible) sister that only sexually active people could eat Sixlets! I gave her a big bag of them when she got married.
February 17th, 2012Monica, one thing i can always count on in my day is that if i open your blog, i’m guaranteed a good laugh - and i mean that in the best way. That’s assuming of course, if the fabulous photos of yummy fabric and heavenly creations don’t draw me in first! Great bags, great fabric. You are a rock star! ;) Not entering the competition, but just wanted to say that!
February 17th, 2012I remember that rice candy from Cost Plus before it became a national chain… back in the old San Francisco days! It used to have really cute prizes in it. Now, I’ll go for anything with dark chocolate!
February 17th, 2012I haven’t thought about a signature candy, but other than any kind of chocolate candy, I guess I like an old timey candy named Charleston Chew. Takes me back probably 58 years ago. I still see them at times and of course have to purchase one. They are still pure delight.
February 17th, 2012Love the bags!
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is from Ikea- Toffee Laces. Like licorice whips but toffee flavored, yummm.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Cute bags!! I LOVE chocolate oranges!
February 17th, 2012I’m crazy over these bags….Love them, love Aussie Licorice, and Jr.Mints are a close 2nd…
February 17th, 2012Cheers
maggie
The bags are so adorable. I am definitely going to be making some for me and my girls! Oh and my signature candy is Almond Roca!
February 17th, 2012My sig candy would have to be Mike and Ikes. Adorable bags - love your Matryoshka-ness. It’s a thing with me too. Don’t know how I feel about my kids all growing up - I like the stair step look!
February 17th, 2012What cute lunchbags! I defineitely have to make some of those. Sounds like you two had a blast making them together. My absolutely favorite candy is peanut butter M&M’s. I always have some stashed in my sewing room.
thanks for the chance to win :)
February 17th, 2012Thanks for a chance to win. I love almost ALL kinds of candy so it would be hard to pick just one, although I’ve never heard of your rice candy; sounds interesting ;>)
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is Dove Chocolates and I have a hard time leaving them alone. I just can’t eat one. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012The fabrics in these darling bags make me happy …what a lovely job you’ve done on them. I love Almond Joys, have all my life. Thank you for a chance to win something so adorable…
February 17th, 2012Such cute bags, don’t laugh but I love Scotch Mints especially after I eat.
February 17th, 2012Well hello there been so long since my last catch up over here at your lovely wee blog and your on pin too can’t wait to see your boards! my fave all time chocholate is Galaxy but I do love a caramac!! xx
February 17th, 2012Love, love, love the bags. Such beautiful fabrics. Would love to be selected to receive one!
February 17th, 2012OMGOMGOMG. OMG. You two are sew cute! Xo
February 17th, 2012I love that fabric, it’s so Spring-y and happy! Would love to make something with it…
February 17th, 2012Such cute bags! Thanks for sharing this idea and offering this giveaway. I don’t have a signature candy but one of my favorites is Coconut Clusters from Pollak’s Candies in Pittsburgh. Now that I live in the south I don’t get them very often.
February 17th, 2012adorbs! your sewing always is so cheerful and happy! i’ll have to give my signature candy some thought - i love them all!
February 17th, 2012These are all so cute. I love Jr. mints and York Peppermint Patties.
February 17th, 2012those bags are so super cute!, i love Green & Blacks milk chocolate and go through at least a couple of bars a week?? yikes. it’s an expensive habit. And probably not that good for me but i loooove it.
February 17th, 2012Oh I love those little rice candies! I remember going to Fred Meyers with my mom as a kid and it was like a treasure hunt to be the first to find it on the shelf. Now I love anything minty or the chocolate oranges you can always find at Christmas time.
February 17th, 2012I love chocolate with almonds. Very Cute bags. Thanks for the give away chance.
February 17th, 2012So so darn cute! I love those bags and all the yummy fabrics you used. I need to make some bags.
February 17th, 2012I love seeing all the different variations of Ayumi’s tutorials! These are so stunning and would be a welcome change to my faded Chocolate Lollipop purse!
February 17th, 2012I love reading about your cyber friendship - friends are great! I love candy just about as much as I love fabric, I like it all but I think Swedish Fish are the candy I buy most. :)
February 17th, 2012Great lunch bags. I like the tip for beefing up the handles. My favorite candy is chocolate in all it’s many forms and combinations. Best while crafting is peanut M&M’s, no mess and oh so good. Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway.
February 17th, 2012Those bags are adorable! My signature candy has to be tootsie roll minis. My husband used to put them in my backpack as a surprise when I went to class while I was in college. Just seeing them today makes me feel warm inside! :)
February 17th, 2012I love Hershey’s milk chocolate kisses with almonds.The lunch bags are so cute!
February 17th, 2012Ahh, I LOVE doublemint gum! I always have some in by bag! My favourite has to be Atomic Fireblasts, a friend sent me a HUGE box of giant ones last October as part of a swap, and I’m still working my way through them!
Also, your blog makes me want to learn to quilt! You’re so insanely talented!
February 17th, 2012I love this pattern and can’t wait to make it! Your fabrics are so cute and are perfect made up in this pattern. Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012I just love your bags! you both are so creative. My favourite candy would be good n plenty I have loved them ever since I was a kid.
February 17th, 2012These are all adorable! I’d love to make one!
February 17th, 2012Eu adorei esses,mas…Quero o de morangos,se é que eu posso escolher.Vocês pessoas generosas obrigada .Beijos e Bençãos. ps:Gosto de todo e qualquer tipo de chocolate,como cachorro lambendo até a embalagem…???
February 17th, 2012Oh. My. Happy! Those bag mke me HaPpY! I’m going to have to make a few. Of course,they’ll have to nest because now my OCD knows that yours do. Thanks for sharing!
February 17th, 2012My signature candy: CHOCOLATE.
February 17th, 2012The lunch bags look super cute to make.
Saw these in the flesh last night and they were as darling as the photos! My favorite candy is Sweet Tarts - which is kinda like cheeting because they are dextrose, not table sugar :-)
February 17th, 2012I LOOOVE your fabric. Would love to win your FQ’s to make my bag!! I’m not sure if I have a signature candy, but I do like Bit-O-Honey when I’m sewing…
February 17th, 2012Ok. In local parlance, we call this sluttin’ around on the SW’s. What are you thinking??? How easily you’re lured into the web. An adorable pattern and some swanky fabric and you’re cheatin’ yo lil’ o’ heart out. Fo’ Shame!!!
Fine. We’ll move on. But only ’cause those little bags are so gorgeous. And Milk Duds are the signature goody here. Gotta have some chocolate and caramel. And Doublemint. I buy it bulk in Sam’s and it doesn’t last very long. I’m always smackin’ and poppin’ — more so lately as I stew and fret over this whole cheatin’ thing goin’ on here.
But we’ve moved on. Right?
February 17th, 2012These fabric lunch bags are great and the fabric you have chosen for them, makes them so bright and cheery. My favorite candy is anything with chocolate. Truffles are yummy.
February 17th, 2012Those are the cutest lunch boxes ever! I used to love any flavor of Mountain Bars when I was a kid, especially the peanut butter or cherry ones.
February 17th, 2012Hi…I’m popping over by way of Lori’s. So glad I did! What a bright, happy place you have here. Thanks for the chance at your very fun giveaway and thanls for the peek at this really cute bags!
February 17th, 2012I’m an Almond Joy nut! Thanks for the giveaway - I’ve actually tried that Botan candy and it’s pretty good!
February 17th, 2012Candy? It has to be Peanut M&M’s. All time favorite! What a wonderful giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012I have a tie for my two favorites: peeps and red licorice.
February 17th, 2012Eeeep! Adorable! My Hello Kitty Bento boxes would look awesome in these!!
February 17th, 2012Love your fabrics, your imagination and creativity…all your projects are sooo inspiring!
February 17th, 2012Darling bags and great giveaway! Thanks so much for the chance. My favorite candy when I was a child was Tootsie Rolls, now it’s Lindor truffles.
February 17th, 2012I love the bags you both made! What a fun thing to do together. Thanks for the chance to win! Oh, and I am a M&M girl myself :)
February 17th, 2012Your bags are just beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity to win some fabric. My signature candy is jujubes!
February 17th, 2012My favorite candy is peanut M&Ms. Thank you for your generous and fabulous giveaway.
February 17th, 2012Very cute bags from very cute fabric!
February 17th, 2012Oh I love the color combos! I’d say that my fave candy is the Cherry Mash or Cherry Bing-yummm!
February 17th, 2012OK…anyone OLD enough to remember the 7up candy bar. No association with the soda, but it was a candy bar that had seven different flavors in each bar. I always left the best for last…a Brazillian nut covered in chocolate. Oh I am SEW very vintage (G)!!!! BTW…I really really want to win!!!
February 17th, 2012Those are super cute, I used that pattern as the starting point (cause I can’t leave any pattern alone) to make my daughter’s lunch box this year!
February 17th, 2012How adorable all these bags are. I came over from Lori’s blog although I visit yours too, I just happened to hit hers first today.
I don’t really have a ’signature’ candy but I LOVE Fannie May Truffles alot.
February 17th, 2012Thank you so much for the chance to win.
What ADORABLE bags!!! Love your blog! And now a giveaway? It gets better all the time!
February 17th, 2012I love Turtles, you know the kind with caramel and pecans covered in chocolate. Yah that kind of turtle, although I am partial to the green ones that swim in the ocean! :-)
February 17th, 2012I just love those lunch bags - and how cool you guys can swap your very own fabric lines. My head is jumping ahead - what would a fabric line designed by both of you look like?
PS: My favourite candy is gummy bears!
February 17th, 2012I love all of the bags. I love the way you and Lori mixed up the fabrics. Sew cute!!
February 17th, 2012Those are just too cute!! I am sure I have 5 fat quarters laying around somehwere?!? :)
February 17th, 2012I’m glad you asked because I’m almost out and forgot to put it on my shopping list. I’ve been really into Salt Water Taffy lately. Like a whole bag in 2 weeks big. I saw it at Target while I was looking at the flavored mini tootsie rolls, which are now 2nd best.
February 17th, 2012What a cute swap! The bags are great, the broads are too! This question is right up my alley. My signature candy changes every few years. My current fix is peanut butter M&Ms. If you haven’t tried them, you must! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
February 17th, 2012I love anything reeses pieces. And I love your adorable lunch bags! Not sure if I’m brave enough to attempt one yet…
February 17th, 2012Love your bags and Dove chocolates!
February 17th, 2012Thanks
Those bags are so fun! I may need to make one for my knitting. My signature candy would be junior mints. My husband said it should be peeps.
February 17th, 2012You’re the cutest. I love all those bags and I’m not even a flowery girly girl! They remind me of woven rafia purses my sister and I carried for Easter that had drawstring fabric linings in lilac gingham. That Ayumi sure is clever - I’ll have to try this pattern.
February 17th, 2012Oh my goodness!!! You and Lori! You guys know how to make my day!!! Ever since Lori told me about you guys’ projects using my tutorial, I had been wondering what they were you guys were making! These lunch boxes are so cuuuuuute! I love them all so much! You know, your fabric is everywhere in Japan. When a stuffed gnome santa welcomed me at my local fabric store, I felt like I saw you there! I so agree that technology can be all about friendships. Ok, I gotta go now! Can’t wait to hop over to Lori’s blog once I am back from hiking, hehe! Thank you for making my day Monica!
February 17th, 2012Love these bags! Lori brought them to one of our quilt groups! Much sweeter and by far cuter increase time!!!!! Hope to win one or two! If not I will make some!!!! Shanna
February 17th, 2012I have so many candy loves… Currently I am addicted to snickers. Being 6 months pregnant may be helping that… I LOVE the bags. Thanks for the heads up on the tutorial.
February 17th, 2012Very cute! I think I’ll have to try one (or 10?). My favorite candy is M&M Peanuts-it was love at the first bite!
February 17th, 2012Well my goodness! Just today I went and got the new iPhone4s so I can play too sometime! these are so freaking cute I am off to find tutorials and fabric. My candy its the silly carmel bullseyes the have at Joanne’s, used to get them at the penny candy store when I was a kid and there were still a few little newspaper stores that sold drinks, cigarettes and candy.
February 17th, 2012You can eat the saran wrap like wrapper? Interesting, I have seen opaque rice paper but never anything like that….anyhow, right now my fav candy is wint-o-green lifesavers, which when I make my cross-border tarjay forays I buy int he super monstrous something like 5 pound bag….I would like to say it lasts but….
February 17th, 2012Thx for the lunchbox bag pattern idea, I have 2 little girls who need new big girl lunch bags…..
Love these bags! Thanks for the great giveaway. My candy of choice is peanut M & M’s. I can’t leave a whole bag by my sewing machine as I could eat the whole bag without realizing I am eating the whole bag. :)
February 17th, 2012What a great post. My girlfriend, who lives on the other side of the country, and I were so inspired with these lunchbags and your virtual sewing that we are going to do a virtual sew-in-Saturday. Thank goodness for technology! Not sure if I have a signature candy, but I really love peppermint patties. Thanks for the chance!
February 17th, 2012Such cute bags! absolutely lovely prints
and my fave candy is marshmallow!:)
February 17th, 2012Candy??? Chocolate, anything chocolate!!! If there’s caramel too, it’s an added bonus :) eeppp!! Must win :)
February 17th, 2012Absolutely awesome giveaway! I guess my signature candy would be Red Hots. Yummy!
February 17th, 2012What a wonderful lunch bag. I am definitely going to make one of these. As for my favorite candy, oh dear. I have such a sweet tooth it’s tough to pick one favorite but I suppose it would have to be home made caramels.
February 17th, 2012What darling bags. My favorite candy is….well, unfortunately every thing! I especially like “white chocolate” tho.
February 17th, 2012You are hilarious ! my old time ( i’m old !) favorite was good & plenty ; but now I’m in love with any kind of chocolate&caramel candy . I bought some cheap cherry balls to put in a Mason jar for a Vday decoration and they are just marvelous !! The lunch bags are so cute !
February 17th, 2012Bee-U-Ti-Ful !! Love the colors of the fabrics!
February 17th, 2012I love M&M’s. I am not fussy about flavour but I can’t eat the Almond ones (allergy). I have just discovered the coconut ones which I am totally loving at the moment.
February 17th, 2012Love the bag and the fabrics! So sunny and happy. My favourite candy/chocolate bar as a teenager was “Snickers”. I used to have one every day at school. My friends even bought me an entire box for my 18th birthday. Sadly, I don’t eat enough of them now, which is also probably a good thing.
February 17th, 2012That would be Tooties Rolls. The mini’s. Thanks for the link to the lunch bag tutorial.
February 17th, 2012Oh I love the bag and I love Junior Mints! Throw some Junior Mints in popcorn and YUMMY!
February 17th, 2012You and Lori need to Skype so you can watch each other sew!
I love these bags. They’re really cute. My signature candy??? I guess I have to say Reese’ peanut butter cups. thanks for the chance to win the giveaway.
February 17th, 2012My signature candy is…. Milk Duds! LOVE them! or maybe Skittles….. or Peanut Butter Cups? Or red licorice (the real stuff, not twizzlers)
Thanks so much for a chance to win such fun things!
February 17th, 2012Super cute bag!! My late night treat is Bridge Mix. Yummy chocolatey goodness!
February 17th, 2012I should be embarrassed to say that conversation hearts are a must-have for me. But I’m not. LOVE!!!!!!!!!
February 17th, 2012My signature candy would be (do I have to pick just one?) I think it would be the malo cup! Yummy!!!!
February 17th, 2012I’m so happy to meet another Oregon quilter! I’m away from home in body but always there in spirit. Your purses came out so nice!
February 17th, 2012This is so cute! BTW, my signature candy is anything Dark chocolate!
February 17th, 2012Peanut butter M&Ms. Mmmm, now I wish I had some here…
February 17th, 2012What adorable bags! I would love to make my own :) Favorite candy..toss up between Twix and Reeses…love them both and usually have them stashed somewhere :) Thanks for the chance to win!
February 17th, 2012love the lunchbags and my favorite candy is anything milk chocolate.
February 17th, 2012M&Ms any time!
February 17th, 2012what a fabulous giveaway! i love peanut butter m & m’s. :)
February 17th, 2012Wow. There is so much goodness in those pictures it takes my breath away. Clearly a whole lot of other people think so too! Is today my lucky day?? :-)
February 17th, 2012Cute giveaway goodies! My signature candy is cinnamon altoids.
February 17th, 2012Oh dear, I need to make one of these lunchbox bags! Ok, my favorite candy…*thisissohard*…lemon drops. There’s never not a perfect time for lemon drops.
February 17th, 2012i am so easily influenced…i am going to have to make some of those bags!! i love all of your bright cheery colors and patterns in the bags AND in your studio. btw, what do you think of the oliso iron, and are you still using the panasonic?
February 17th, 2012OMG!!! I just love reading about all this fun! I am a dark chocolate lover, myself . . . like those lil’ Special Dark chocolate bars . . . such a great opportunity to win - thank you!
February 17th, 2012Reese’s peanutbutter cups!! Covered with chocolate that melts on your fingers forcing you to lick them. Don’t want chocolate on fabric.
February 17th, 2012These bags are too gorgeous! My favourite candy is Peanut Butter M&Ms, sadly they’re not available here in Australia!
February 17th, 2012Those lunch bags are indeed cuuuuuuute! I need to make one as I have vowed to save money by taking my lunch to work for the next two months because I want to save my pennies for a quilt show trip, lol! How quilt obsessed am I…
My signature candy would be Milk Duds. Or Caramel Apple Pops. Just can never get enough caramel! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway :)
February 17th, 2012Jelly Bellies! The green pear ones are my faces! What a darling darling pattern.
February 17th, 2012I love these lunchbags!!! Just wrote it on my list to make this weekend! My signature candy is chick-o-stick, love, love, love them!
February 17th, 2012I adore your cute lunch bags. I want to make a bunch, you have inspired me. My signature candies are licorice allsorts. Grew up eating them, love black licorice, and would eat them layer by layer…lol. You and Lori have made this giveaway so much fun!!!
February 17th, 2012So cute!!! I would love to win… my favorite candy is… Peanut M&ms. YUMMY
February 17th, 2012These bags are adorable. Chocolate is my candy of choice and I love Double mint gum!
February 17th, 2012Jolly Ranchers, I think….
I just love the cheeriness of your fabrics!
February 17th, 2012I have seen this tutorial before, but seeing the bags in such cheerful colors has inspired me to want to make the bag now.
February 17th, 2012Oh your lunch bags are all so very pretty and now I want one! Really lovely fabric choices. I think my signature candy would have to be “Jelly belly” jellibeans. I just love all the unusual flavours.
February 17th, 2012aww..I love these!! as for candy i love me some cadbury creme eggs..mm..yummmm
February 17th, 2012I am so inspired. I think I’ll have to make one of these bags this week-end for my secret pal at work. Don’t eat much chocolate but when i do it is one of these, Baby Ruth or Butterfnger.
February 17th, 2012Too cute! I’m a Heath Bar girl myself, though I’ll eat just about anything with peanut butter, toffee, or caramel involved. Thanks for the giveaway!
February 17th, 2012Love your bags! My fav candy is red licorice! Yummm! :)
February 17th, 2012Gorgeous lunch bags! My favourite candy is a Cadbury’s Flake. I don’t know if you can get them in the U.S. But they are soooooo good!
February 18th, 2012Love all the colors…no two bags are alike!
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy is Reeses peanut butter cups~~~any size shape or form!! I would love to win the FQS, so that I could make that bag! It is just adorable! Thanks for the chance to win!
February 18th, 2012Love the bags and the fabric - but perplexed by many of the favourite candy ( or lollies as we say in Australia ) Obviously lollies are one thing that is still quite individual to different countries :) Me, I love fruitchocs ( dried apricot and peach coated in chocolate) Unique to South Australia. Try them is you get a chance,you won’t be disapointed-YUM!
February 18th, 2012I don’t have a signature candy! I just love chocolate, and your fabric!
February 18th, 2012These bags are oh, so dang sweet! I’m going to have to make me some! As far as candy goes, orange slices all the way!!!
February 18th, 2012i LOVE all candy, but especially candy I win.
February 18th, 2012I would love to win this and make one of those lunchbox bags. I’m going to make one even if I don’t win! My favorite candy would have to be Three Musketeers (fluffy - not stuffy) or maybe some cowtails.
February 18th, 2012the bags are so cute!! i have been eating candy long enough to have more than a few favorites. Turkish Delight. Cadbury Flake. Baby Ruth. Toblerone.
February 18th, 2012Growing up i love mint leaves and i still do.xx
February 18th, 2012These are great! I made something similar several years back for my knitting. I like the drawstring tops. I hope I win!!
February 18th, 2012Love the bags. I have to go make one! As for candy, candy is my signature candy! Can’t choose just one thing. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 18th, 2012My signature candy would be just about anything milk chocolate.
February 18th, 2012I love that your blog is so bright and uplifting….definitely one of my favorites. Your projects are amazing!
Love it all! Glad you two got together and came up with this marvelous idea! I love M&Ms…I could snitch them all day long!
February 18th, 2012Ok, let’s make it simple : I just love everything you make and these lunchboxes can only but confirm this.
February 18th, 2012Thank you for sharing this wonderful tuto with us and… I keep my fingers crossed for Monday…
I’ve loved Cup of Gold for as long as I can remember. Harder to find but a trip up the coast to Cambria, CA provides me with a few to enjoy from the gas/convience store. Have fun happy “doublemint twin” in your sewing adventures!
February 18th, 2012So glad you’re back Monica! Now we know where you’ve been - busy sewing these cute lunch bags. Almost… almost makes me wish I was still working and needed a lunch bag. Oh well.. retirees can use lunch bags too, or I can give one to my working friends.
February 18th, 2012Mounds candy bars (even though I feel like a nut). Love the bags!
February 18th, 2012Love your lunchbox bags so much! I just made one myself, such a great pattern and such a cute bag!
February 18th, 2012As for candy, they’re not my all time favourites, but I seem to keep popping Caramelo Koalas in my swap parcels. Trying to send a bit of Australia out across the world :)
Beautiful bags! Favorite candy: cadbury’s milk chocolate, or is it dove, or is it anything German , or Hershey’s?! You get the picture.
February 18th, 2012Just love this bag and love all the fabric combos. They make me think of spring.
February 18th, 2012Well, I had to pin this, of course, because they are so dang cute! Your fabrics are always so cheerful, love that. I’d love to win some to make my own lunch bag. I think I’d be happier trotting off to teach at the Middle School every day we a new lunch bag, don’t you? My signature candy would have to be Milkyway Midnights. Thanks for the chance to win!
February 18th, 2012My signature candy is Andies Mints…love them. I have been known to wrestle my 6ft+ son to the ground over an Andies Mint (I am just over 5 ft). Thanks for a great giveaway).
February 18th, 2012Love this pattern in your fabrics. I think I have enough left of mine to make one today!
February 18th, 2012Thank you for the wonderful give away.
I just love a plain old Hershey’s candy bar that you can just break the squares and eat it.ahah..a.a..
Oh yay! An opportunity to win your fabric! I have long coveted it! :)
Hmm..I think my favorite candy would have to be peppermint bark. I’m actually glad it’s only available at Christmas. :)
I haven’t had rice candy in AGES! I remember the wrapper melting in my mouth…yum!
February 18th, 2012I was surprised that I found “Botan Rice Candy” in Japanese grocery shop in California when I came here in 1998.
Bontan Ame (= Pomelo Candy) was my dad’s favorite candy. The candy maker is not a big company, so not everyone in Japan knows it.
Yes, it is “Bontan” not “Botan” in Japan:)
These style of Lunch bags are very popular in Japan.
My mother made several for me when I was in school.
It is very versatile, washable, and cute. I made some for my sons, too.
One of my friend has a recipe of “Jello Mochi”.
February 18th, 2012It is not “Botan Candy”, but the texture is very similar.
Ingredients are “Flavored Jello”, “Mochiko Powder”, “Water”, “Sugar” and “Cornstarch”. Sounds good?:)
I could ask her if she has the recipe in English.
Oh how sweet! I am a beginner sewer, so this would be awesome to win. Thank you for the contest!
February 18th, 2012Cute bags! Dove chocolates!
February 18th, 2012I’m jealous of your workroom! It’s so colorful and cheerful feeling. But you asked about favorite candy–there are so many, but I love sweetarts and some very rich Belgian chocolates.
February 18th, 2012I love these bags! I start a new job on Monday and would look so trendy with a new lunch bag, so I think I’ll try to make one soon!
My favorite candy is Milk Duds. My mom and I both love them… and they gross my husband out, so I get them all to myself when they are in our house…
February 18th, 2012I love Cadbury mini eggs. I don’t like the round Christmas version though. I almost choked on those! Also, another favorite is Mr. Goodbar!
February 18th, 2012I love love love these lunch bags. i just got done making your tiny treat bags and now I can’t wait to make one of these.
February 18th, 2012Awesome bags and awesome blog. I love your cheeriness!
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy bar is a Cherry Blossom or possibly Cuban Lunch!
I love the bags you’ve both made! Thanks for the link to the tutorial!
February 18th, 2012I’ve never heard of Botan Rice Candy! what is it? My favourite is dark chocolate - especially Green and Blacks! (don’t know if this is available outside the UK??)
M&M’s….I could eat them by the bag full.
February 18th, 2012Those are the cutest lunchboxes I’ve ever seen!
Black licorice, anyday! And I am completely in love with those beautiful lunch bags. Your fabric combinations are wonderful.
February 18th, 2012I love, love love those bags. I’ve been going a little “I want to make bags! _Every_ kind of bag!” crazy lately.
February 18th, 2012Well, one of my favorite candies is Hershy’s Kisses, but I do love those old favorites; LOOK, BIG HUNK, and BIT O HONEY.
February 18th, 2012Love these bright bags! I love chocolate, so I have to say Dove chocolate squares (any variety) are my favorite candy.
February 18th, 2012I love this little bags!!!! My favourite is chocolate, any kind!!!!. Thank you for the chance!.
February 18th, 2012I love the cute little lunch bags–I wish I had seen these before Valentine’s day. Maybe next year’s project(s). I love anything with sugar but I probably go for Reeses more often than not.
February 18th, 2012OH my goodness–every time I “step” into your sewing room I fall in love! LOL Beautiful bags—and all made in some of my favorited fabrics!!
Hmmm—I guess if I had a signature candy–it would be candy corn. It has always been a favorite–and I have ended up with quite a collection of candy corn treats: candles, chapstick (candy corn flavor), etc.
I would love the chance to win! Also, do you happen to know the paint color/ name you used for your sewing room walls? My craft room is yellow too–but I am thinking of painting my living room yellow and love your shade!
February 18th, 2012I love it! I will be making at least one of the lunch bags! I appreciate your blog so much! It’s like having my own private workshop! Thanks so much! Oh, my favorite candy would be anything with dark chocolate! Yum-m.
February 18th, 2012I don’t usually leave comments but those ARE over-the-top cute. Favorite candy: good ‘ol Hershey’s kisses. I think I’ll have one now!
February 18th, 2012I have two signature candies: Cowtails from the Dollar Store (they sell lots so is always fresh) and Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate. Plus, my mother is now hooked on the Cowtails too. Thanks for the lovely giveaway and photo show. I enjoyed reading about the Doublemint Twins bag-a-long.
February 18th, 2012Those bags are so cute!!! I am so happy to know I’m not he only one saving the Moda twill tape and now I have a use for them! Am I a hoarder?????
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy has to be M&M’s but the Doublemint gum takes me back to my childhood as my grandfather always had that and Juicy Fruit around the house.
Thank you for the fun post!!
These bags are adorable! Aren’t sewing buddies the best? My signature candy is those cherry sours that come out at Christmas. Yum!
February 18th, 2012Oooh, those are cute! My signature candy is Newman’s Own dark chocolate peanut butter cups. They’re so yummy!
February 18th, 2012I love those bags! I have to tell you that it was such a big deal when we were little to go downtown to Import Plaza and get botan rice candy! Great memories! My kids love it too thanks to the awesome Uwajimaya! It is the perfect signature candy for you!
February 18th, 2012My all time favorite candy are the chocolate rum balls that are covered in chocolate sprinkles. Can’t remember the official name(not from America that’s for sure). I found them at the Commisary a few years ago & always get several bags. Some of my friends keep them in their desks! Great bags!
February 18th, 2012I love your bags! How fantastic and fun they look! Thank you for sharing! Happy to find your blog.
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy is chocolate licorice!! Kathie L in Allentown
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy are Schokolinsen (from Germany)I cannot find them here in the US, but everytime I go visit my family I overeat on them. Thanks for the amazing giveaway.
February 18th, 2012Christin
Love the Happy Mochi Yum Yum fabric. My favourite candy at the moment is Skor Bites (not sure if they are available in the US or if only here in Canada). Thanks!
February 18th, 2012Those lunch bags are a blast, work great for gift bags..love! I adore jellybeans and overdo them at Easter but can’t help it :)
February 18th, 2012Love this bag. It would be perfect for my new knitting project. Thanks
February 18th, 2012Cute bags!!! So I am a sucker for anything black currant flavored. My favorite candy is a black currant hard candy with a black licorice center. It’s hard to find here in the states (it’s a UK thing) and that makes it extra special when I actually can get my hand on some.
February 18th, 2012I love your bags and of course all of the fabrics. I have been to Lori’s blog and saw hers also…how fun for the two of you. I think my signature candy is chocolate covered haystacks…love them. Thanks for the chance to win such yumminess.
February 18th, 2012I LOVE aniseed balls. I used to work in an old fashioned glass jar sweet shop as a student. Last Xmas my Hubby bought me a glass jar, scoop and bags for my very own aniseed balls!
February 18th, 2012TY for the giveaway!
I love the happy colors of your fabrics! My signature candy is probably peanut M&Ms. I would never turn them down!
February 18th, 2012Love your bags! I’m going to put this on my pinterest and make one in the future. My mom used to love those big cherry candy bars. I’m sort of a licorice fan. Thanks for the giveaway!
February 18th, 2012I love Hot Tamales. And I would love to make a new lunch bag for my daughter.
February 18th, 2012amazing!! my signature candy would be jelly belly jelly beans… mmmm….
February 18th, 2012I love chocolate-covered candied ginger, especially if it’s dark chocolate! Love the lunch bags too.
February 18th, 2012Monica, You girls crack me up and remind me of my cousin and I sewing together. My favorite candy is Reese’s pieces. Yummy! Thanks for the wonderful chance to win!
February 18th, 2012Ooooh I love!!!! Super duper cute! ;) I’m so wanting some more of your fabric that I ADORE!!! My signature candy anything reeses peanut butter cups especially egg shape! Plus I’m a big fan of m&ms in holiday colors! YUM!
February 18th, 2012Darn, Monica! You always find (design, make, etc., etc.) the CUTEST stuff! And you and Lori paired up is just killer! Now I’m going to have to make a whole bunch of these babies. I’m not sure if I should thank you or be mad that you’ve distracted me from my plans–yet again. LOL!
February 18th, 2012I love these bags! I definitely need to try one.
February 18th, 2012My signature candy at the moment would have to be lemonheads. I’m just loving them.
Nice that the fabric is named after me! I love it and it goes so well with your line. I will definitely have to make one. My favorite candy bar when we are traveling is the Big Hunk because it takes a while to eat it!
February 18th, 2012Your bags are gorgeous! I need to make some of these too. My favorite candy/sweet snack is coffee crisp. Love it! Gotta stay away from it!!! LOL!!! Thanks for the giveaway!!!
February 18th, 2012Great bags! I just found your blog through Bee in my Bonnet and I can wait to see what other lovelies you’ve made :)
Cinnamon candies were always my favourite. It’s a toss-up between hot tamales and hot lips.
February 18th, 2012Your bags look wonderful! My signature candies are Hershey’s Hugs and Kisses. (channeling the Simpsons prank call episode)
February 18th, 2012I absolutely LOVE all the bags you and Lori made. They are really beautiful. My alltime favorite candy is the Cadbury Eggs that only come out at Easter. You would think all that goodness could stay around longer than a few months. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 18th, 2012I love a jawbreaker or two…that and twizzlers! Sorry couldn’t just choose one :o)
Love the lunch bags…so cute!
February 18th, 2012My favourite candy is something we have in Spain that looks like a red little brick:
February 18th, 2012So good but so bad too…
Terrific giveaway! Thanks
I love this little bag, especially with the drawstring closure. Anything caramel is my favorite at the moment.
February 18th, 2012Oh my gosh that is freakin’ cute!!!!!
February 18th, 2012such cuteness! Thank you for the chance to win. Yoou have inspired me to get creating for spring.
February 18th, 2012Such cute lunch bags- I’d be tempted to fill them with my favourite lollies - licorice allsorts - what a great lunch that would make!!!
February 18th, 2012Those lunch bags are sew cheerful and cute! I love them. Right now my favorite yummy is dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
February 18th, 2012My signature candy would be plain M&Ms - so good!
February 18th, 2012lovely. hugs
February 18th, 2012Oh my, I SO have to make one, or ten, of these. I wouldn’t say I have a signature candy, but I love green sour straws.
February 18th, 2012Those little lunchbox bags have been on my to-do list for a long while. My favorite candy would be little sugar coated Cadbury eggs available at Easter and Christmas.
February 18th, 2012I love that you guys did a virtual sew together. So awesome! Love the bags too & thanks for the opportunity to ein some of your awesome fabric.
February 18th, 2012These bags are PRECIOUS. My all time favorite candy is Smarties! I make myself sick on them at times.
February 18th, 2012Mmm…I love Dove milk chocolate and Almond Joy/Mounds, and I would love to get a taste of your Happy Mochi Yum Yum fabric!
February 18th, 2012Love the lunch bags. Looks like they could be used as a cute knitting bag. My fav candy at the moment is hershey kisses with carmel inside.
February 18th, 2012You know that you and Lori are my favorites, I would love to win this more than anyone else who is entering. So please pick me, I have started a diet so I can not have any candy :( If I could I would want Lindor truffles because they are delish.
February 18th, 2012Mmm, that’s got to be any kind of Lindt chocolate. We were at an outlet store in Maine and their ac wasn’t working, so they had to sell off all the chocolate, cheap! I learned that chocolate keeps just fine in a camping cooler, as long as it’s full! Fabric is almost as good as chocolate though! Thanks.
February 18th, 2012I don’t know if it’s a signature, but I freaking love Reese’s eggs. The Easter kind. They have pumpkins around halloween now, which is good too, but it’s the eggs that have my heart.
February 18th, 2012Those lunchbox bags would be neat for my bf’s and my bento boxes.
Monica, I love your sense of humor and all your sewing goodiness. Those bags are so cute and I know several people who would love to receive one as a gift.
February 18th, 2012I can see these as present for my granddaughters …. soo cute.
February 18th, 2012I love these bags so much! I really love Ayumi’s tutorials. Her fabric basket is one of my favorites. I think I’ve made one for every holiday and they are the perfect size for a cute little gift. You and Lori are so talented! My signature candy is without a doubt, redvines licorice. :)
February 18th, 2012What a great giveaway! I’ve never heard of Botan Rice Candy… My favorite would be Sweet Tarts. Mmmmm! And now my kids like them too! :)
February 18th, 2012My favorite candy is one that I make. I make my own homemade marshmallows and dip them in homemade caramel. They are so addicting that I have to give most of them away or I will eat lots and lots of them, and since my recipe makes about 150 of them that wouldn’t be a pretty picture! Thank you for the chance to win some awesome prizes!
February 18th, 2012So adorable!!!!
February 18th, 2012My signature candy would be anything with caramel in it. I have been known to eat caramel ice cream topping straight from the jar! And a cute lunch bag like this would be a good hiding place for it.
I grew up next to a family where the husband worked for a company that sole Doublemint (I was very young so don’t remember all the details) but we always got free gum and Doublemint has always been my favorite!
I love your blog and Lori’s aw well! Always fun to see your posts!
February 18th, 2012I would love to win your awesome giveaway! Your bags turned out great! My favorite old candy is Bit of Honey. I love them. Actually I love most any kind of candy if it has chocolate or caramel in it too.
February 18th, 2012Cute bags! I love m&m’s.
February 18th, 2012I love all our projects- end up teaching classes on most of them! Lunch bag will be next, I can tell. Maybe I’ll fill with peanut butter eggs - since Easter is the next excuse, er, that is, holiday to buy candy!
February 18th, 2012Great sewing!! My “signature” candy would have to be those sour gummy worms - they were my go-to snack at the movie theater, complete with pink lemonade :) Thanks for the great giveaway… I love your fabric!
February 18th, 2012Such great little bags! mmm…my favourite would be smarties. YUM!
February 18th, 2012Please enter me in your wonderful giveaway! I’m so glad I found your blog from a link on Bee in my Bonnet! Your blog is so colorful and pretty. I can’t wait to look around more. Thanks for letting me enter.
February 18th, 2012Blessings,
Patty
These bags are amazing and adorable. I saw the tutorial a month or two ago but this renewed my interest in making these!
February 18th, 2012That is so cute it smarts!!! Thank you for the chance to win!
February 18th, 2012I love PEEPS-esp the choc covered ones! bags are really adorable!
February 18th, 2012Reeses Pieces. I think they’ve been my signature ever since E.T. :)
February 18th, 2012SUCH cute bags!! I absolutely love them. The colors are so happy! :)
I don’t think I have a “signature candy”… which is probably a good thing :) I do have fudge truffles that I make every Christmas and again for my chocoholic friend’s birthday… but I don’t generally eat them myself.
February 18th, 2012I love, love, love the DS one best! Very nice bags!
February 18th, 2012My signature candy varies from day to day, but licorice is a pretty safe bet. Great contest!
February 18th, 2012Cute pattern. I’m allergic to chocolate so usually go for skittle sours or a peppermint candy
February 19th, 2012Awesome bags, would love to make one! And as far as the candy goes I agree with whoever said the chocolate easter eggs with the candy shells only made around easter are the bomb!!!
February 19th, 2012My all-time-fave is Kinder surprise eggs.
February 19th, 2012Cute bags & cute fabric designs! Love happy colours! Thank you for great giveaway!
I absolutely love your bags!!!
February 19th, 2012I love this bag and I love yours….so pretty and cheerful. What a great time you and Lori must have had. Thanks for the chance to win a great prize. Hugs Vicki x….Oh….I just love all sorts of chocolate :)
February 19th, 2012Your bags look adorable.
February 19th, 2012My favorite candy? Something Dutch: ‘Engelse Drop’ (just google it). I can eat the whole bag!
my moms a blogger and she told me about these and how cute they are so me and her are going to try to make them together,allthough i dought they we be as amazing as you gals.One of my fav candies when i was growing up was lemonheads,iloved the sour and sweet….
February 19th, 2012I’d love to be entered in your giveaway. I found you through Lori’s blog. What cute bags you two have made. I want to try one too! –Pat
February 19th, 2012I love all these lunch bags. I like the nice colors and the idea. Thanks for the chance to win. Barbara from Italy
February 19th, 2012Love Love Love the lunch bog idea — going on a job interview on Monday — hoping to have a place to take my lunch bag!!
February 19th, 2012Dorothy in IL
I love you fabric! I have a quilt kit I’m cutting in it right now! My signature candy is probably Coconut Long Boys- they’re hard to find, but the chewy caramely coconutty goodness is completely irresistible!
Thanks for a fun giveaway!
February 19th, 2012I love these bags!! So pretty! My favorite candy has to be the Molasses Chew from russell stover. It’s the only plave I’ve ever found anything like it. It’s a molasses caramel dipped in dark chocolate. I know, sounds gross right? Well, everyone else thinks so around here. So more for me! :D Thanks for another fabulous giveaway!
February 19th, 2012The bags that you and Lori made are so cute! I love the drawstring top. It reminds of a bag I used a few years ago.
February 19th, 2012I love, love, LOVE those bags! I’ve been wanting to make one, too! I’ve followed another of Ayumi’s tutes and she really is great at making it all easy to follow!
February 19th, 2012Favorite candy? Have you tried the Cherry M&Ms? Holy smokes.
Thanks for the opportunity!
KZK
These bags are soooo cute. My drug of choice would be Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Kisses. I can manage to get by with other dark chocolate if I run out, but they are just not the same. BTW, it is a 120 mile round trip for me to buy them so I usually stock up, but sometimes a chocolate emergency arises and I have to make do with Dove dark, which I can get locally.
February 19th, 2012Sounds like a fun time - virtual sewing with Lori. The results are spectacular on both ends. Thanks for sharing.
February 19th, 2012OMG the bags are the cutest! I just looked at the tutorial and will make one today. Rainy day in NC! It might even snow! Hmmm - favorite candy - M&M’s with peanuts! Well ~` it could be Snickers - Hmmm and I like Hershey Kisses with Almonds! Oh, let’s face it, I really like any candy that has chocolate and nuts! Yummy!
February 19th, 2012I want to make one (actually the whole set of matchiness) just like yours, so pretty! But candy (or sweets where I hail from) of choice has to be Drumstick lollies, just love them, a must have when I visit the homeland.
February 19th, 2012My favorite candy is Skor bars… on ice cream, frozen, on anything! But glad its nearing easter…. cadbury eggs are back!
February 19th, 2012Monica, you’re back! I have missed you! The lunchbox bags are fab-u-lous! So cute. Hmm, I think I feel a pin coming on…………..
February 19th, 2012The luncheon bags are so nice! I would love to make one. Then I can store all my hershey kisses in it. They are my signature, all time favourite, candy!
February 19th, 2012Oh my, I would love to win. My signature candy is a chocolate bar (as we call them here in Canada!), called a Coffee Crisp. Sooooooo delicious, not too strong a coffee flavour, really indescribable. How about a trade, if I win this lovely goody package, I’ll send you a care package of Coffee Crisps, okay? LOL! :)
February 19th, 2012I can’t resist red licorice! I’d love to win this fabric.
February 19th, 2012Mentos, I know so geeky, but I like Mentos, it’s the fresh maker!
February 19th, 2012These are just the cutest bags I’ve ever seen! Love the pretty fabric for each one, too! I love peanut butter cups…I mean I REALLY love them! Thanks! ♥
February 19th, 2012These are sooo cute, colorful & charismatic! I’m new to blogs & recently found you, I love your site & check it out frequently, your bold, fun color choices are so inspiring! I LOVE dark choc. covered cranberries from Trader Joe’s (insanely yummy), Banana Laffy Taffy & Reeses PB cups! Thanks for a great site & giveaway! :)
February 19th, 2012Cute bags and great blog! I am trying to avoid candy but since you asked I love Almond Joys! And really anything chocolate. I miss my Mom’s fudge. Thanks for the giveaway chance.
February 19th, 2012What a wonderful little bag and full of goodies too!! I love the fabrics and the candies look yummy too!! Pick me Pick me…
February 19th, 2012My favorite candy would have to be a Snickers Candy Bar. Yummmmm-OOOOOOOO!
February 19th, 2012this is SO cute and OMG Botan Rice Candy is DELISH! I fell in love with it as a 4th grader when we went on a field trip to SF Chinatown. yum. my signature candy is Bit O’ Honey. old school candy, so glad I can still get it at the grocery store and dollar store! thanks for the chance to win!
February 19th, 2012These bags are really cute!! I love most candy!! oh what a sweet tooth I have!!
February 19th, 2012Raisinettes,
February 19th, 2012I don’t go to the movies with out Chocolate covered fruit
Cute little lunch bags!! Especially the Pam Kitty one– LOVE Pam Kitty!!! :-) If think my signature candy would probably be Peanut M&M’s– used to be Zero bars, but lately I crave the M&M’s.! :-) Thank you so much for the chance to win!! :-)
February 19th, 2012My favorite is Andes chocolate mints! I personally think they should make them in a big bar size. LOL! I love the bags you and Lori made! Can’t wait to get started on making one too!
February 19th, 2012Those bags are awesome, and I like all candy.
February 19th, 2012Hi Monica,
February 19th, 2012You and Lorie sure created some fantastic bags with some very pretty fabrics. My signature candy- that is difficult but I would have to say Peppermint patties( Pep) or Jujubes. I love both and can’t tell you which ones I love more. LOL
I have not heard of the rice candy that you showed in your photograph. Thanks for hosting a fun giveaway.
Regards from Western Canada,
Anna
Oh, these bags are so, so cute!! I’ve registered over at Lori’s site too and I’ve got my fingers crossed for a win. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
February 19th, 2012Rita
What an inspiration on a dreary winter day! All the color and spirit in these cute bags. Great ideas.
February 19th, 2012I’ve just cut out a bag, using some old vintage curtains, using Ayumis tutorial. Wish me luck and thankyou for the chance.
February 19th, 2012M&M’s are my favorite! I can’t buy the peanut butter ones because I will eat the whole bag in one sitting! These bags are so cute. Thank you for the inspiration.
February 19th, 2012I love your lunchboxes!! Pretty much any chocolate candy is my favorite!
February 19th, 2012Hi Monica, another FANTASTIC project! I love it and am waiting to get together with my Mum again and we are going to have another girly craft session! You know you are my inspiration (I’ve now got my sister wise to your blog as well). Aurora xo
February 19th, 2012I love most candies so can’t name one. I really love those little bags and would enjoy making them for my daughters.
February 19th, 2012Thanks for the chance to win a great prize.
Thanks so much for the tutorial. I can’t wait to get started. As for candy…I don’t think I’ve met one that I didn’t like!
February 19th, 2012Maybe not a lunchbox but a very cute substitute for an Easter basket. Thank you for sharing! As for candy… Chocolate or Starburst. :)
February 19th, 2012Love the lunch bags! Can’t wait to make one.
February 19th, 2012I admit it. Nerds.
February 19th, 2012I love jelly beans and spice drops! thanks for the tutorial!
February 19th, 2012The lunch bags are so darn cute! I love York mint patties.
February 19th, 2012Those bags are a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e!!!! I love them.
My signature candy is probably hot tamales. I love them! But my FAVORITE is probably the gummy sour bunnies that Williams Sonoma makes once a year. And of course, we don’t live near a Williams Sonoma anymore. :/
February 19th, 2012My signature candy would probably be Sunkist Fruit Jems! Because I love the favors and the colors and because I’m a Jem I eat so many! Can’t wait to try the bag pattern!
February 19th, 2012I LOVE stale Circus Peanuts. They’re too gooey if they are fresh, but opened for a few days, and they’re crunchy on the outside, and amazing!
February 19th, 2012Love the lunch bags, they look so cute in your fabric. I love Wine Gums!
February 19th, 2012I love the bags and the fun fabrics you used to make them. My signature candy is butterfinger candy bar. That is my favorite at the moment and I loved them as a kid.
February 19th, 2012These bags are way cute ! Love the whimsical combinations of fabric colors and patterns. I’m off to make one or two or…
February 19th, 2012~My fav candy is Muddy Bears :)
Love the bags and your fabric! Can’t wait to make my own.
February 19th, 2012I’ve just discovered M&Ms with peanut butter. Yum. My granddaughter loves the Japanese rice candy.
February 19th, 2012Adorn-able! me likes me milk chocolate with toffee bits–mmmmmmm….
February 19th, 2012Oh, these adorable lunch bags. You have given me a wonderful gift. When I came to California in 1955..I was 6 yrs. old and my Grandma and Grandpa rode with us across country..from Appalacia…Kentucky. My Grandma made my nightgowns out of flour sacks, made my Easter dress for me and a little ‘purse’ to match. The purse looked exactly like this ‘lunchbag’. Guess how they made it?
February 19th, 2012At that time…cottage cheese with pineapple in it was sold in a wax covered carton that looks like a cottage cheese carton now…only a little bit smaller.
She made me two before she returned to Kentucky. I’d give anything if I still had them. I will use your pattern to recreate one. My favorite candy is A&W Root Beer Barrels….(they don’t melt on the fabric) ha. Thankyou for sharing with us..you are so kind.
I loove fuzzy peaches, and swedish berries!
February 19th, 2012Love love love all your fabric ~ the colors are so springy, bright and Happy.
February 19th, 2012I also love the photos of your sewing room- I have grand ideas for a not so used family room of mine in the near future. I love Peanut butter cups… Yum yum..
Love the lunch boxes I will have to make one or three. I also love your sense of humor and reading your blog.
February 19th, 2012Twizzlers red licorice. Thanks for a chance to win.
February 19th, 2012Love, love the darling bags! Love all the fabrics! Love Hershey kisses!
February 19th, 2012These bags are so adorable. I would love to win the fat quarters.
February 19th, 2012My favorite candy is a LOOK Bar. Yum.
Almost as much as I love the fabric!!
February 19th, 2012My favorite lollies (candy) would be peanut butter m & m’s
February 19th, 2012Love Hershey’s chocolate bar with nuts and Hershey’s kisses! And love this bag!
February 20th, 2012My siggy candy would be Peanut Butter cups. Yum! Cute, cute bags.
February 20th, 2012Love these bags! I have two f them, but will be happy to have another beautifull one :)
February 20th, 2012I love your fabric. I need to see if my LQS carries it fast. If not, www here I come. My favorite candy is Almond Joy but in truth, I love all things sweet. Thanks for all you great ideas. Michelle
February 20th, 2012Such cute bags! I love the colors!
My favorite candy are Twix, preferably in the snack size.
February 20th, 2012When I was young, we had a store called Steve’s NewsStand that we would always walk downtown to. It’s where all the kids would go to pick up their papers to deliver. They had this huge counter that had all kinds of candy and they were only .01 each (can you imagine!:) Do you remember the little red hot dog gum? The little plastic coke bottles filled with liquid? The little colored dots on the strip of paper? (I don’t think you’re old enough :)- but those were the days! :) Oh, and candy necklaces- can’t forget those! Good memories!!:) Love your bags and the fabrics you chose!! Thanks for the great giveaway!
February 20th, 2012Love both your blog and Lori’s such talent in the both of you. Can’t wait to try my hand with a lunch bag. Love Cadbury mini at Easter…Or anything with nuts…Thanks for the chance to win…Have a happy week…
February 20th, 2012Darling lunch bags! Don’t have a signature candy, other than anything chocolate.
February 20th, 2012This is my first visit to your blog, you are now added to my favorites! I love your blog colors, my favs! pinks, orange & apple green! WOuld love to win fabrics!
February 20th, 2012Thanks for the bags, they are so cute, would make nice Easter gifts!
I’ve made a few of these bags too. they’re a great size. I played with a couple making them taller and gave them as baby shower gifts. The taller ones were a great size for the new mom to carry just a couple baby bottles in and not have to worry about them not being insulated.
February 20th, 2012Is it too late to play? Currently, love Butterrum Lifesavers, but I’d never turn down a Baby Ruth…or an Almond Joy..lmmm chocolate and cocnut…
February 20th, 2012Cherry Mash is my favorite candy.
February 20th, 2012Love the bags!
ooh! how fun are those bags! My “signature” candy depends on the season… at Christmas time I get tins of Cadbury’s Roses.. so good :) I think Lindt filled truffles would be the one I would have around through the year.. if I have candy at all!
February 20th, 2012Adorable lunch bags! My favorite candy is Good and Plenty -I love black licorice.
February 20th, 2012I love anything with dark chocolate. I cannot resist it! Thank you for the chance to win!
February 20th, 2012Those are really sweet bags. My MIL asked me to make her a purse/bag last Aug and I finally finished it yesterday. Maybe it wouldn’t take me so long to make one of these.
February 20th, 2012I just found your blog from my friend Lori. I love it and also your cute fabric!!!I just have to have some!!!!Also I love the cute bags.
February 20th, 2012Love the bag-in-a-bag design! So cute!
Deb S.
February 20th, 2012I adore Mallo Cups. Creamy marshmello with a hint of coconut and covered in chocolate. YUM!
February 20th, 2012Tammy
Love the bag!!! My “signature” candy is black jellybeans. None of my siblings like black licorice, so I always got the black jellybeans. The same with coconut. Mounds bars are the bomb!!
February 20th, 2012OOOHHhhh these are so very CUTE!!!!! Love them :) Candy wise it would have to be……….malted millk balls with a layer of peanut butter…OMG!!!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win…… love what you do and thank you soooo much for sharing!!! Happy Monday!!! Nurse Payne
February 20th, 2012Bit o’Honey - - for decoration only ‘cuz I can’t chew it. Thanks for contributing to my more-than-an-obsession for bag making.
February 20th, 2012You had so much fun and I love the iphone companion sewingthon!
February 20th, 2012Red Hots….I buy Red Hots for my Honey. I personally don’t like candy..and I am allergic to chocolate….sunflower seeds are my gig.
I was just telling my friend about the Botan Candy!!! Can you believe she has nver had them!! I loved them as a kid and now as a old lady!!
February 20th, 2012What a fun stack of HMYY…I would LOVE to turn those into a cute lunch sack. If it’s got chocolate it’s my signature. I ain’t picky about the kind or content or fanciness (or lack thereof, as is the case with me…Hershey’s works for me!). Thanks for the chance!
February 20th, 2012I have never quilted but this looks like fun and I would like to learn :-} We have had 3 girls from Japan but i have never had Botan Candy !!! that would be new!! Thanks see you on Pintrest
February 20th, 2012Lovely lovely bags! I love all candy! But one of my all time favorite candy are Skittles. Yum… Thanks for the giveaway!
February 20th, 2012You two are amazing! Keep up the great work we LOVE your STUFF!!
February 20th, 2012The colors put a smile on my face as soon as I saw them.I so wish I could sew like that…I need to get me some of this fabric so bad. I love all candy!!!
February 20th, 2012Fan ~ tas ~ tic!! Already pinned it! Can’t wait to make it! Thanks :)
February 20th, 2012My favorite non-chocolate candy is AldisSwedish Fish, but only the red and green ones. The bags are too cute!
February 20th, 2012love, love, love that strawberry bag……so wish I had one. You do beautiful work! And I love just plain old Hershey milk chocolate candy bars. Wish I had one right now……
gloria g. South Carolina
February 20th, 2012So seriously cute! And I’m a Milk Dud addict…..
February 20th, 2012Oh gosh, those bags are so cute. I especially love the Happy Moochi one (the last one you showed).
My signature candy is anything chocolate. I guess a Mars bar (a Canadian Mars bar - I hear yours are different).
February 20th, 2012One of my favorite candies are peanut butter M & M’s! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
February 20th, 2012too cute!!!!!
February 20th, 2012Thank you so much for the chance to win these awesome goodies! I love japanese chocolates, like those from the brand Royce. Not sure whether they are available in the States. Thanks! :)
February 20th, 2012No signature candy here - I’m trying to cut back. But those bags are adorable!
February 20th, 2012oh no I almost missed it ! I love Violet’s candy. They are square little candy that according to my kids tastes like soap, hence the nickname of soap candy - best of all they won’t eat them. Mine, mine, mine :) What a fun giveaway, thanks. I cut my bag out tonight, hope to get to sewing it this week.
February 20th, 2012-Karen
Those lunch bags are awesome. I think I’m going to make matching ones for my daughter and I. Thank you! My favorite candy is a toss up up, either Junior Mints or Sweet Tarts. Thanks for the chance. :)
February 20th, 2012I loved Botan Rice candy as a kid - because you could eat the wrapper too. I am not sure I have a “signature” candy but I had a years long addiction to Extra peppermint gum in high school. If I win I will definitely come up with a signature candy. Promise!
February 20th, 2012I am and have always been a Twizzler fan. Thanks for the giveaway.
February 20th, 2012hi monica! i adore all of the bags and i’d love to make one too! ;)
February 20th, 2012The bags are adorable. Your happy blog has made my day. My candy? M & Ms! Thank you for the great giveaway. ~Kelly
February 20th, 2012Rocky Road. Lovely bags!
February 20th, 2012Lovely bags. I love the colors.
February 21st, 2012These bags are so adorable! And I’m going to have to find some of that rice candy.
February 21st, 2012I love all of the lunch bags you made! Congrats to Robyn. I’m making a granny square to honor both you and Lori, not because your grannys but because you are awesome! :)
February 22nd, 2012I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these bags. I made about 40 of them for a Dance Team fundraiser! I added a small pocket on the side for a phone. I took one to LA with us when the kids were on TV and I got tons of compliments on it. It was the perfect little bag for my sudoku book, The Help (I was reading that at the time), and fruit snacks for my 20 children. :) That one didn’t have a pocket, which is when I discovered how great a pocket would be. :)
February 23rd, 2012I love these bags!!! inspiring.
tinyinc
April 10th, 2012