Fixing/stitching a bad

stello1001

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  • Feb 20, 2017
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    Hey all,
    I bought a mini fortune cookie used. Has 3 very small holes but it's leaking sand through them.

    I called the person I know who's good at sewing/knitting/stitching, etc. Which happens to be my mother. She told me to take it to her.

    Every time she puts the needle through it it creates more holes that open up enough to let sand out, unlike when she does clothing, tablecloths or other things.

    Is my bag just old the material no longer good enough? Or do you guys have a special way of doing these?
     
    Open it up, dump out the filling, line the interior with a durable bag of some sort, (have mom make something), then put the new filled bag back inside the original bag. Go shootMr.

    I like this idea. But to open it up in order to have a newly made bag would require stitching it back up. Im afraid the new stitching will cause the old material to tear out.

    Is there a particular section people are cutting these out to remove or replace fill? I know this is pretty common but...

    Flex seal the inside of the bag.
    I like this idea too. The flex seal would probably make for a great patch. But same as above. I'd have to have the bag cut and re-stitched back close.
     
    Sounds like the bag is toast, which sucks as you paid for it. Hope it was inexpensive. You could slap a flex seal patch across the outside of the bag where the holes are. Yeah, it’d be ugly, but you wouldn’t need to re-sew the bag.

    A new bag is $75, which isn’t nothing, but might be cheaper than the time and aggravation of fixing the old one.
     
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