2 More Japanese Rice Bags

I made a couple more Rice Bags to hold sewing machine foot pedals and cords. This has been a useful and fun project to make these bags and I am using up some sewing theme fabrics too. I have been experimenting with the sizes of these bags and tweaking how they are sewn as I try new things with the construction of the bags. 

The bag on the left I quilted with a serpentine stitch and the bag on the right a straight stitch. I used fusible fleece for the bag exterior and fusible interfacing for both linings of the bags to provide a bit of structure. Each bag has a total of 8 total casing tab loops for the drawstring to go through; 2 on each side. The cording was made using a Kumihimo disk and various yarns I already had to create each cording for the bag. Two cords were made for each bag so when you pull the cords, it closes the bag. Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique and goes perfectly with these Komebukuro (Japanese Rice Bags), plus I love how the cording looks too!

I cut the 5 exterior squares slightly oversize and then quilt each exterior square, square to size and then assemble into the bag. The bag on the left was squared to 8 1/2" for each square, while the bag on the right was 7 3/4". The bag on the right shrunk up a bit more with the quilting, so I trimmed to the largest size I could after quilting and you can see the bag on the right is slightly smaller.

2 Komebukuro or Japanese Rice bags to hold foot pedals and cords for 2 sewing machines. I made clear vinyl windows to hold a paper saying which machine the foot pedals are for. I can easily change the paper names to hold a different machine or even put a name in the window for using the bag as a project bag by slipping in the project name in the clear window instead. 

The Kumihimo cording cinched the bags closed.

This is the slightly smaller bag, but still roomy.

This bottom I used this fabric as I didn't have enough of the fabric I used for the sides.

Looking into empty bag you can see how roomy it is.

Sewing machine foot pedal and cord for Kenmore inside bag.

Foot pedal and cord for Pfaff sewing machine inside bag.

After placing the foot pedal into each bag, I saw the Pfaff was a larger foot pedal, so I later switched the foot pedals and machine labels and placed them in the opposite bags, which worked out better.

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