Tricks for a Great Treat Bag

• Tracing paper
• Felt: white, black, light green, and red
• Transfer paper
• Orange embroidery floss
• Black chenille yarn
• Eight black buttons
• Needle
• Fabric glue

Spider bag pattern

1. Enlarge the pattern pieces and trace them onto tracing paper; cut out. Use the pattern pieces to cut the felt shapes as follows.
2. For the bag front and back, cut two 13-x-16-1/2-inch rectangles from white felt. Working from the wrong side of the bag front, use transfer paper and a pencil to draw the web design; use orange embroidery floss to outline the web pattern in running stitches.
3. Cut eight pieces of black yarn in varying lengths for spider legs. Referring to the pattern and the photo for placement, arrange the legs over the web on the front side of the bag front. Glue into place, stopping 1 to 2 inches from the "foot" of each leg. At the point where the gluing stops, secure a black button "knee" over each leg. (The ends of the spider legs hang freely.)
4. Cut an oval spider body from black felt and stitch it to the bag front, covering the tops of all the legs.
5. Glue on the spider head, eyes, nose, and mouth.
6. Assemble the bag as described in the Basic Bag instructions at left, clipping about 3 inches from the bottom corners and using pinking shears to trim seam allowances and handles.