Making cloth shopping bags

[amethystrse]

Today I finally went onto morsbags.com and used their pattern for making cloth shopping bags.  I've been wanting to do something like this so I don't use plastic bags anymore.  Orion was going to help me but he decided to take pictures of me making a bag instead.  I only had time today to make one bag.  I showed it to my mom when I went over to her house.  She wants me to make a bunch and so does my great aunt.  I was thinking of making 20-30 for each household in my family.  But my mom insists she only needs 6 and my aunt says that 10 would be more than enough.  So I'll make them both 10. 

Anyways, here's the photos Orion took.  lol

I first sorted the fabric.  I have a lot of unused frabric from past sewing projects.  I also had bags of clothes I had been saving to make quilts out of.  I decided to use them for this. 

^ One of my old shirts from high school that I will probably make a bag out of eventually.  yeah, I used to wear really weird clothes.  lol

v Another shirt that is too small to make a shopping bag out of but I might use it to make a tote to hold the shopping bags in.  Hard to believe I was ever that skinny (pre kids).

v Measuring and marking and cutting the fabric.  Orion actually took a million pictures of me doing this.  These are just a few though.  I deleted most of them.

v Ironing the handles.  There was a lot of ironing with this project. 

v Sewing the bag

v Finished project!

They are actually really cute and I put a few things in it to see how much it can hold.  It holds more groceries than it looks.  I love it!  My mom wants hers done in the same fabric though.  lol  I was hoping to have these ones for me.  But I have a pretty blue fabric I can make some of mine out of and there is always the psychodelic shirts!

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