Handy Food Bags for Your Ice Chest

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 4

Handy Food Bags for Your Ice Chest

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Jenny Hirsch .)

wotJWrtff to do 'but,: work. Nothing to eat but ' food. Nothing to wear but clothes, To keen us from going nude. jgVEN if there’s “nothing- to eat but food,” it’s wise to make the b<»t of it. To do this, care must be taken not only in preparing it, but in storing it as well. Ice chest bags help to keep the moisture la those foods that need it. If tha bags are all alike, one loses time in pulling out the wrong one. ,To see at a glance which is which the spinach, you need only bind your bags in different colors. iy£ATERIALS needed for 3 bags of different size: One yard of muslin, 1 piece each of green, yellow, and dark-blue, fast color, biasbinding, 2i yards of white tape 1 inch wide, and sewing cotton. The smallest bag is to be 9 inches wide, 10 inches deep when shut, and have a flap T inches long,- “ pieces of muslin, one 9 x 17 inches, the other 9 x lOi inches. Make a seam on one short edge of the smaller piece. Lay it on the large piece, with the unfinished raw edge on a short edge of the larger piece; baste it on. Jj-IND all raw edges with green bias-binding, stitching it by machine. The portion extending beyond the small piece is the flap of the bag. Turn this down on to the small piece. rind the .centre

of the edge of the flap, and mark it. Cut a piece of tape 27 inches long, and cut this in half. Sew one piece to the centre of the edge of the flap. Sew the second I inch below this, on the smaller piece of mufilin- To keep your bag entirely shut, you can tie it. rjvHE second bag is to be 5 inches wide, 13 inches deep when shut, and have a 9-inch flap. Cut 2 pieces of muslin, one 8 x 22 inches, the other 8 x 131 inches. Proceed as before, binding this bag with yellow bias-binding. The third bag is to be 12 inches wide, 16 in ches deep when shut, and have an 11-inch flap. Cut 2 pieces o! muslin, one 12 x 27 inches, the other 12 x 161 inches. Proceed as before, binding the baw with dark- . Mas bias-binding.