I was cleaning out/organizing Henry's closet on Monday and found these puzzles. I almost never get them down because the pieces get everywhere (usually falling on me while trying to pull them down from the shelf.) I was ready to toss them into the Goodwill bag. Everything was going into the bag of things that 'little boys and girls need more than you do'. I'm feeling so irritable lately in my pregnant state and feeling like I don't have any room in my life for excess 'stuff'. But the children fell in love with them all over again and begged to keep them. I am not against puzzles, just irritated with puzzles whose pieces don't stay in.The only solution: puzzle bags, of course.
It was the only option that I could think of that wouldn't take up any additional space, but that would keep all the pieces contained (I am not normally so neurotic). I used only fabrics from my stash (we only needed 5 bags anyway) and just purchased the cord which is very inexpensive. 
Little hands that can't wait to get the puzzles out of their new bags. While I was not too irritated to make the puzzle bags, I was too irritated to change to white thread. So there. At least you can see how it was done. I just button-holed the fabric before hemming and making the casing for the cord. I measured the bags this way:
About an extra inch on each side and roughly 4" on the top (seen here on the far left). 
Okay, I'm off to being mildly irritable.
Happy Thursday!
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