Chores don't have to be boring when you're armed with a colourful laundry bag and darling dress-shaped peg bag. Made in fresh patterned cottons from Art Gallery Fabrics' Color Me Retro range by Jeni Baker and Pat Bravo’s Carnaby Street collection using simple appliqué techniques, this set is sure to brighten a corner of your kitchen or laundry room. All you need now is sunny weather!
Stitch a laundry bag
Cut 53cm x 88cm of patterned pink material, then 5cm x 53cm of coordinating fabric. Stitch together, with a 1cm seam allowance, and press open.
Trim 18cm x 53cm of plain lemon fabric and back with lightweight interfacing. Cut out six motifs from the patterned fabric, back with interfacing, arrange as pictured 3cm from the side edge, and sew in place. Stitch wording across the middle and press on the reverse.
Stitch the decorated lemon fabric to the last piece you joined, then press the seam. Cut another strip of coordinating fabric 8cm x 53cm and stitch it to the lemon piece. Cut 40cm x 53cm of patterned pink fabric and join it to the last piece, then press the seam open.
Cut six 8cm x 18.5cm pieces of coordinating fab