I made a garment bag for my wool skirts!
I suffer from quite a plague of moths in my room and have been able to decimate their population by using the diamond traps with the glue strips. In my experience lavender and cedar wood do not help. The traps cut down on the male moths but can't catch the female ones.
I made this bag out of polycotton, a cut up bed sheet if I remember correctly, that I wanted to use for toile material. So far the moths had not gone for polycotton so I hope that this will continue.
I measured the fabric by laying the wool skirts on their hangers on top of the fabric. I found that I didn't have quite enough width of the pink polycotton fabric so I had to use strips of this lovely patterned quilting cotton. I am really happy that this gives the whole project a great look.
Plus: I've again made a feature out of a bug - that pleases me very much!
I could sew the invisible zip to the cotton strips first which made handling the whole thing easier. I overcast the raw edges after sewing this together. Luckily it was really easy to turn inside out through the zip opening.
I left the sewing threads long and pulled these ends onto the right side with the help of a hand sewing needle. You get great sharp corner with very little effort when you just pull on those threads to pop out the corners. No poking or pushing required!
I re-inforced the central seam above the zip and then only poked a little bit of it open so that the hanger fits through. I am fairly certain that no cheeky moth can crawl through.
To make the garment bag that little bit safer I also included a piece of anti-moth paper - though I am not at all sure that these work. Still, I had some left so why not.
That's two wool skirts that are at least zipped into a bag that moths would have to eat through. I hope they don't.
