About every five years or so, my husband and I decide that it’s time to have some fun with gifts for our married children. Three of those children have children and the other two children enjoy our ideas as well.

One year we bought baskets and filled them with homemade goodies. Oil bottles filled with herbs, home baked products, pastas, pasta bowls, napkins and Mexican blankets. We had a blast!

This year we decided to pull it off again, but the kids really don’t need another laundry-size wicker basket. The new idea would force me to dig out the old Singer sewing machine, but it might really be fun to deliver Santa Sacks.

Wal-Mart had the neatest 60″ polyester fabric in Santa suit red. The clerk thought the idea was really clever and proceeded to cut 5 separate pieces of fabric each 2/3 yard. The project would have been much more difficult for me had she not done this! My round kitchen table is not very easy to work on.

With the selvages together and the cloth right sides together, I stitched the raw edges…right side, then left side (pillowcase fashion). As I sewed, my husband wrapped fun gifts and practical gifts in pieces of colorful Christmas paper. No bows and no tags because the tie on the top of the bag would indicate the recipients.

For the tie, I used 1 ½ inch wired ribbon. I used 2 ½ feet for each tie. I sewed a bell on each end and found some darling glitter stick ons in the shape of green trees.

We felt good about the Santa Sacks. We will deliver the first 2 to Houston and Austin, the second 2 go to St. Louis and the fifth one will go on Santa’s express for delivery up North.

Have a wonderful Santa season!