I accidentally made a Holiday Dress out of an Amazon Gift Bag 

I was wondering if it was a microwave or a cabana boy or something.

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Morgan - Always knows the answers we REALLY want, lol.

My god. With an air fryer that big, you could air fryer a goat!

@@ReisigSeeds at the very least, and I hear this large model also comes with a cabana boy!

I REALLY wanted to talk about the history of flour dresses in this video but completely forgot until I'd finished editing! Darn it, some day!

@@MorganDonner Tomorrow IS another day.

@@rhondacrosswhite8048 Yessss!!! Somewhere my Mom has a collection still (I think) of old flour sacks either purchased on our trip to South Dakota and Wyoming and/or from family / local thrift shop, that actually had very clearly intended patterns printed on the sacks, along witha few patterns somewhere. They are one of the things I really wish could make a comeback because, in addition to encouraging stocking up on pantry staples, I think it would make history and sewing lessons so much more fun to teach!

I was thinking the same thing!

@@rhondacrosswhite8048 preach! We need that video!!

A dark omen

To much power in her brain, the light couldn't stand it 😂

Du-du-duuuummmm!

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Lmaoooo like cats with the boxes of presents you get them

It's like kids and pets.... The box gets played with just as much

The frickin' worst!

Happens all the time!! Ugh! 🙄

Just like the stories of people using flour sacks for material in the Other Depression.

Yeah. 😒 Happens every single time! Awful!

*Morgan's parents That is not what we sent you....

My husband accidentally spoilt some yarn I had for a project. Now it's a cute monster with Vitiligo marks.

I'm not really sure how a week long project is an "accident" but it is super cute!

Rachel: mushroom sleeves

@@Nikki-tx6kh that sounds durable!

Adding a detail (because I was about to comment this myself): Not only did the sacks get nice prints. They added the logos and content info in ink that easily washed away so you wouldnt have text all over your clothes.

@@marljusweety Or they glued the labels on with an easily removable adhesive.

My mother remembers her mom using flour sacks as material in the 40s. You use what you've got. Lol

My mother made pajamas and blankets out from these flour sacks for us too. It was late 1990's. Too bad the sacks only have the brand prints all over, it looked ugly but we had to make do with what we have.

@@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree That's too bad about the prints. A lot of cotton flour and feedbags used to have pretty prints.

@Aster Sylvestris 😁⚔️😁

Hell yeah!😎

Who are you and why are you in my newsfeed?

@@VeginMatt I love that this has become an in-joke now XD

It could be next year's Halloween costume!

Kinda like a toilet paper dress. 🤔

Because it just is. I suppose it varies according to your tastes, maybe? What a great learning experience for her AND for me too! I love her show.

Because Morgan's adorable.

I've been watching your videos love them

You must add pockets 😜

Worth it JUST to be able to say that!

True.

It was for a ritual ;)

@@polkadot8788 Yes! From my archaeology degree I learned that as long as it happened long ago enough, a "ritual" is anything which has happened once. If its happened more than that, there might actually be a decent reason for it. Ha ha.

Damn Straight. (or not, whatever floats your love boat 😉)

Morgan definitely is a gift. I enjoy her content a lot. :)

the gift that keeps on giving!

Morgan Donner No problem. Just team it with some 18th century lingerie (without the chemise) and you're ready to go. 😜😂🤣😂

@@MorganDonner I'm sure that your husband agrees. *giggle* unwrapping is the best part, yes?

Absolutely! I agree!

Awww, thank you Danielle! Weirdly, I have gotten a couple of these in different fabrics over the years (parents like big gifts I guess!). Mostly I've been using them for storage - my cabbage 'bin' is actually an amazon bag like this with the top half flipped down to make the sides sturdier.

Definitely agree. As Oscar Wilde said, “we can forgive a man for making a useful thing so long as he does not admire it-the only excuse for making a useless thing is to admire it intensely”. Not that this dress is useless but you get my point haha ❤️

I want to order the gift bag now. Lol

Having a bunch of small ones could lead to a Very Pretty Christmas dress for Sally from Nightmare before Christmas?

@@curiousKuro16 I like your thinking!

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Omg, this is so true!

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Yesss, exactly! I meant to talk about that in the video and just completely spaced it 😅

Thank you! I was just looking to see if anyone else had the same idea oh, that this was a modern version of the flour sack dresses👗💙

This is close to the modern version of the pillowcase dresses that many are making currently for little girls.

I also got the 'paper dress' from the 60s vibe from this -- ala the Cambells Soup dress from Warhol. What a cool project and a great reuse! The dress style is cute too!

Most of my mom’s school clothes were made from feed sacks when she was a little girl. My grandpa only ever bought the pretty color patterns of feed sacks when my grandma wanted sewing fabric. It was a bit more expensive for the animal feed in pretty sacks, but it was still cheaper than buying fabric.

I had the exact same reaction 😂

"That's not what I meant by scarfing noodles, Grandma!"

it's a new thing, youtubers get convenient yet dramatic power outages!!

I though the same thing

Same lol

It was PERFECT timing

That’s what I was thinking 😂

It might also work as one of those bouffant petticoats under a fifties ballgown?

Actually it's the complete opposite.

@@plainsarahjane1466 exactly, ha. Lights off moment? Losing power moment?

It sure is. What a great learning experience for her AND for me too! I love her show.

it would be a tiny purse

I immediately thought of the paper dresses of the 60's. I had two of them and they weren't nearly as durable as your gift bag material. Wear it proudly, Megan!

Sorry, Morgan. My old brain is showing!

I remember my mother ordering a couple of paper dresses. She actually wore one to the captain’s (USN) pool party. Very nerve wracking for us all. Isn’t your bag Tyvek paper? Pressed polyester, waterproof, used to wrap houses to keep out the rain and also to make FEDEX courier paks.

Oh my god you’re absolutely right I’ve been feeling this too!! So so beautiful ❤️

tru

She’s- she’s married-

@@Isa-tn7ex what does that have to do with someone simply complimenting her appearance??

Children are like cats (or cats are like children?) they both love boxes...

Shoot, I need to think more quietly next time.

@@MorganDonner The lightbulb over your head drew too much current.

the opposite of a lightbulb XD

You win the internet today Vintage Life !

@@wonderwend1 2021 is turning out to be good so far then! I never win anything.

Alas, if you see her now... But oh well, hair can grow again.

Omg, I need absurd numbers of beads to adorn this baby! 😂 Someday!

@@MorganDonner It would look super cute for Mardi Gras!!!!!

I could see a weatherproof dress having some benefits, though.

Now and someone asks you what the gift is, you can tell them my presence is the present

Perfect Xmas dress - which is a warm up to Mardi Gras. Why wear this when you could wear a Regency ball gown? Mardi Gras exists for taking a trip to other worlds.

It reminds me of when you buy a cat a toy or a bed and they would rather play with the box the thing came in lol

Ssshhhhh!!! 🤫 We can't let that get out, people will realize that birds and mice do all of our sewing!

Arrange me a meeting with Fairy Godmother and you got my silence

@@MorganDonner 😂

Good to know!

You have encouraged me to think out projects better....love your Finnish dress.

Yes, and if its Tyvek as I suspect it is, it will soften nicely with wear.

That dress has crazy "Mad Men" vibes! The shape of the dress is very flattering - and being made of Tyvek will block the winter drafts if you go outside!

Omg, final form: take two more small bags and make giant 80's puff sleeves. It would really complete the prom look 😂

LOLs I just said the same thing 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@MorganDonner and another one for your hand bag, because accessories!

We need Rachel Maksy to make one complete with 80's makeover because she would be a super cute Molly Ringwald!!!

@@MorganDonner then I would say to make the sleeve puffs removable, because I do lve the current look!

I certain she was that child lol!

that was my same reaction 😹

Same 😁 I try to reuse what I can, gotta make Captain Planet proud 👍

@@MorganDonner 🌎🔥🌪🌊❤=>🌈🌐

That's fantastic! I saw her do a presentation in person once, cool lady!

@@MorganDonner the dress is super stinkin' cute, too

I love all the Farm series. Alex from the show has an amazing book called Craeft which all makers should read!

Ruth Goodman is a treasure

If I had known Experimental Archeology was a thing when I was younger I would be in an entirely different career now. I would love to do that.

Whelp now I have some character creation to do

Cinderella used curtains; this is the ultra modern remake

@ASMR maroxa I'm thinking of a different movie

@ASMR maroxa it was the Princess in the film Enchanted.

Ok that's clever and I have a bunch of those hanging around.

Fwiw: it's the same type of fabric a lot of reusable grocery store bags are made from her in the US. Pick your favorite tote bag shape and they are super useful!

@@Missbethr Thank you. Yes I also thought of that, but the kind I bought is too thin, so it can't hold a lot of weights. I used it to wrap some gifts for the family, but they are not much of the reuse type, so mockups and pattern paper it is..

I have a pic of me in a vollyball net box. At christmas time. Head where the ball was.

So I used to pet sit. One of my clients was Master Sydney, a pot belly pig. Sydney was fabulous in lots of ways that I'm not going to go into here but the most interesting one to me is that the sort of behind a pig's ear, right about where the ear meets the head, is smooth and soft and supple, like the very finest silk charmeuse. It seriously makes the same spot on my own person course by comparison. Anyway, every time I hear the silk purse of a sow's ear idiom, that's all I can think of. It really makes me wonder if that didn't have something to do with the idiom in the first place. Also, I totally agree, she really can, and it is amazing.

@@camerashycoco What a sweet story!

@@sadiejosiemom Sydney was amazing. One of probably my top three favorite jobs. And I had a lot of jobs. And I took care of lots of different animals. Sydney was just amazing. Apparently, both by my experience and according to all the experts, pigs are super smart. And really, aside from some drooling, quite clean. He pooped in one part of the yard, he ate grass pellets (and whatever treats, they're omnivores) so he always smelled like fresh cut grass, he had a piggy door, with its own doorbell that he would use his snout on if you had shut his door for some reason (primarily to keep out his housemate, Madame Lucy [not a pig, fabulous mutt puppy], but also when you needed to vacuum or mop the floors), and when it was time for bed, always determined by Master Sydney himself, he would hop up onto his sofa, yes, he had his own sofa, and burrito himself into his blankets until morning. Sydney was absolutely amazing. His parents, his human parents, were a EMT and a policeman, both retired. I think she had done water rescue and so there were frogs everywhere. I mean like frog knick knacks and pictures and that sort of thing. And pigs, just all over the place. These people, very nice people, I like them a lot, Not Minimalists. They used to put Sydney into costumes for Halloween and Christmas and whatever other holidays they found particular costumes for. And, as he was very sociable, they took him all over the place. Yeah, Sydney was cool. And he had the softest ears on the planet.

I solidly thought that all the Ruth Peter and Alex shows were only on RU-vid and nowhere else had them

@@rosequill7925 I mean I'm nerd enough that I bought copies on DVD but I'm also lazy enough that I still love being able to rewatch the shows without having to stand up ;)

You can also watch Victorian Farm on RU-vid. The channel Absolute History has all of the farm series on it.

Um yes... now I might actually subscribe! 😱

saaaaaaame

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Most creative crafts seem to involve a lot of staring at the thing.

It seems a universal struggle of creatives is staring at The Thing until it tells you what it wants to be... LOL

@@LyssaJ I think there actually might be a psychological precedent where we are wired to be creative in our background brain so it can be kind of frustrating when you’re trying to focus on being creative (because that borders on oxymoron). Brains are just super weird with this kind of stuff

@@annonimooseq1246 that's a really interesting concept I've never heard before. I can get behind that. It makes the "come back with fresh eyes later" idea work..

I heard the beep when the power went out and was like “and it’s going to have to wait”

I thought that was for scenic purposes ahaahh

It was well timed...

Idea = 1 Motivation = 0 Cannot execute

It's also a thing at major comic cons, there'll be a standard massive swag bag that everyone gets and some cosplayers always end up overnighting a dress out of it.