I found this great article on restoring or transforming your worn out cornhole set on the website for “An Organized Season”. Upon reading the article, I noticed it also mentions repairing your Cornhole bags so I took the liberty to highlight this article as well. I wanted to post and share this with you as it is good reading for the Corn hole community. The link to the original article is can be found here. Please enjoy the article on restoring your cornhole bags for Do It Yourself or DIY Cornhole Bag restore.
Friends, I must confess…I have no business giving anyone advice on sewing!! I sew so little that I have to read the instructions to remind me how to thread the machine every time I use it. Which is not very often!! So, now that you have full disclosure, please don’t make fun of my sewing abilities!!
Here is the “before” picture of the cornhole bags! They look horrible and have tons of holes in them! It’s time to get to work and tackle the final steps to transform my worn-out cornhole set!!
GATHER
- outdoor fabric or duck cloth-use two different colors or designs
- polyester thread
- scissors
- tape measure
- straight pins
- pen
- sewing machine (you can sew by hand if you don’t have a machine)
- iron
PREP
Are you ready to go on this sewing adventure with me? I’m sure it will be interesting!!
I decided to take the old bags apart, to use the material as a sewing pattern. Unfortunately, some of the seams in the inner bags had come apart. Luckily, the pellets were still inside the colored bag.
I used a funnel to get the pellets back inside the white bag. Then sewed the hole closed by hand.
Here are the two fabrics I chose to use for my bags.
MEASURE
Ok, what’s that old saying? Measure twice, cut once! This part always makes me nervous! It’s a good thing I have extra fabric, in case I mess it up!
I used the old fabric as my template. Then measured it to determine what size material I would need.
The old material measured 6 1/2 inches by 12 1/2 inches. First, I measured 12 1/2 inches and cut the fabric. Next, I measured 6 1/2 inches and marked the fabric with a pen. Then, I repeated this step three more times.
I cut the fabric along the lines into rectangles. Now, I will repeat those steps with the second color of the fabric.
After I sewed the first bag, I realized that I should have ironed down one edge of the fabric, as you can see in the picture above. Since I like to learn from my mistakes, I ironed a ¼ inch fold on the long side of my remaining fabric pieces!
SEW
The picture below shows the first bag I sewed. It does not have the ironed seam that I just told you about. However, I still put it in the post to show how I pinned two of the sides!
Put the right sides together and pin two sides of the fabric.
Next, sew a ¼ inch seam on the two sides of the bag that are pinned. In the picture above, you can see how I ironed a seam in the fabric.
Turn the bag inside out, pushing out corners.
Place the white bag containing the pellets inside the new bag!
Sew the open edge closed! And there you have it…cornhole bags that look brand new!!!
Rich said he got several laughs listening to some of the choice words that came out of my mouth while I was sewing!! Oh well, I eventually got the job done, and they look great. It will be fun to see how they hold up!!
Well friends, can you believe that before and after?? Don’t you think it looks a thousand times better?? Some of the steps were challenging, but I was determined to transform our worn-out cornhole set so we could use it again! Here’s to lots of hours of outdoor entertainment and fun! Bring on summer!!
OUTDOOR FUN
The boys are so glad I got this project done. They were missing the cornhole set! Now it’s time to break it in!!
Do you have a cornhole set at your house that’s in need of some love and attention? Let me know in the comments below!
Blessings, Donna and Rich
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