Valentine's Day!

I celebrated Valentine's Day with my boyfriend on Sunday as we were able to spend the entire day together. It was an absolutely fun day that started with crepe and ended with stew and with lots of hug and cuddles in between and lots of crying by me at the end of the night (no, he wasn't being mean to me...he introduced me to Chihayafuru...an anime that had me get really attached to some of the characters). 

For Valentine's Day though, I hadn't gotten around to making him the cookies I had planned on making for him for the whole week before but I had made him a bag to put the cookies in already. The bag looked something like this:

And I am really glad that upon receiving it, he recognized straight away what it was, just means I got the symbol right. He's a starcraft player and this is one of the team logos. The bag itself took about half an hour to make and I put it together mostly with my overlocker and only used my sewing machine for the last stitch on the end.

The first thing I did was cut out two bit rectangles, that made the two main panels of the bag. Then measured the two long sides and one short side of the bag and cut out a long rectangle that was about 2cm wide and the length of the measurement I had just taken.

All of the sides were then serged together. I cut out a handle for the bag that was the same size but just a bit shorter than the rectangle I had cut out earlier and serged that to the top of the bag when I was neatening the top edge. With my sewing machine I then sewed a line on the top of each part of the bag just to make sure the handle of the bag stays in place.

Oh, this symbol? I totally forgot to talk about it. I had found a vectored image of the logo, traced it onto the bag and painted it on with fabric paint. :) Very simple process and a very easy way of making the bag look cute.

So...because I forgot to make cookies, what did I put in it? I can't just give him an empty bag right? Saturday night, I freaked out and made something else to put in it instead. 

Little heart onigiri! Took about half an hour and if anybody wants to know how to make it, I can put up a tutorial later because I didn't really photograph the steps, I rushed to make this little plush.